The second SCA Wales forum, held in Cardiff on 5 June, was opened by Dr Rhidian Griffiths, Director of Public Services at the National Library of Wales. He highlighted the importance of partnership in expanding access to online resources, mentioning the Library’s ‘digital mirror’project, its archive of the Welsh in Ohio, and library.wales.org as examples of how the NLW is working with other organisations to provide sustainable collections.
“Digital developments will also throw up questions about IP and new thinking about creators and users and their rights,” said Dr Griffiths.
“The balance is shifting in the digital world. It will promote new thinking about sustainability, thinking not only about this generation’s audience but audiences in generations to come. There are also considerations of widening access and defining new audiences and audiences who will function in different ways to the traditional. The aim is to give that wider audience a deeper understanding of what exists in our libraries museums and archives.”
Read on for coverage of Chris Batt’s presentation on audiences, Naomi Korn’s testbedding of a new model of IPR, and how the breakout session on business models asked itself ‘how do you solve a problem like JANET’? Continue reading ‘Wales forum: Audiences, IPR and business models’
On 8 May the SCA and Ithaka met in New York for a workshop held to discuss Ithaka’s paper on sustainability of online academic resources (a parallel event had been held in Lon in April, details here).
Below, and attached as a Word document, are Kevin Guthrie’s notes on some of the main themes that arose during the session. It includes a list of next steps that were identified for research or concrete measures that would advance sustainability.
We welcome your feedback on the recommendations as well as the notes, especially your sense of what possibilities strike you as having the highest priority. Over the coming weeks, we will be following up to assess what Ithaka and other organisations might do to act on these ideas. Thanks in advance for any input you can provide.
Continue reading ‘SCA/Ithaka sustainability study: New York session notes’
A final version of the Ithaka report on Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources is now available to download.
Read on for the Executive Summary and to download the full report as a pdf.
Continue reading ‘Download: Final Ithaka report on sustainability’
Business models and sustainability in the digital age: a peer reviewing workshop is currently taking place at the Wellcome Trust in London, led by Kevin Guthrie of Ithaka. Under discussion is the Ithaka-produced report on sustainability and business models.
Read on for a report of the first session: Continue reading ‘SCA/Ithaka Workshop: sustainability in the digital age’
A peer-reviewing workshop is being held today at the Wellcome Trust, London to share reactions to the initial report on sustainability and business models for online academic resources produced by Ithaka. A further event will be held in New York later this month. Read reports of events here in London on the blog throughout the day and download the full report:
Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources: draft report by Kevin Guthrie, Rebecca Griffiths, Nancy Maron