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Alternative business models-- Author (or sponsor) pays Thomas J. Walker University of Florida

Alternative business models-- Author (or sponsor) pays Thomas J. Walker University of Florida. Authors or their sponsors. $$. Everyone on the Internet. Editing, reviewing, composing. Publishers. Summary. Providing your clients what they want, at a fair price,

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Alternative business models-- Author (or sponsor) pays Thomas J. Walker University of Florida

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  1. Alternative business models--Author (or sponsor) pays Thomas J. Walker University of Florida Authors or their sponsors $$ Everyone on the Internet Editing, reviewing, composing Publishers

  2. Summary Providing your clients what they want, at a fair price, may be a good way to stay in business.

  3. Outline • Clients want “IFWA” • IFWA is affordable • Making the transition to IFWA • Florida Entomological Society (100% IFWA) • Entomological Society of America (55% IFWA)

  4. Clients want “IFWA”

  5. IFWA=Immediate FreeWeb Access

  6. Notroyalties

  7. butIMPACT

  8. Library Florida Entomologist Issues Reprints User Traditional dissemination User Files onpublisher’scomputer FTP User Electronic dissemination Web server

  9. Restricted Access Usernames and Site Licenses Individual subscriptions Subscriptions passwords $ $$$ Subscr. Institutions’ staff and affiliated personnel Editing, reviewing, composing Publishers Internet Site L. addresses Pay Per View Credit Everyone else $ Web server cards Free Access Authors or their sponsors $$ Everyone on the Internet Editing, reviewing, composing Publishers Web server

  10. IFWA is affordable

  11. Dissemination modes • Traditional [first 330 years] • Parallel (traditional + electronic) [last few years] • Electronic only: for fee [no way] • Electronic only: for free [the future]

  12. Fee Access Usernames and Site Licenses Individual subscriptions Subscriptions passwords $ $$$ Subscr. Institutions’ staff and affiliated personnel Editing, reviewing, composing Publishers Internet Site L. addresses Pay Per View Credit Everyone else $ Web server cards Free Access Authors or their sponsors $$ Everyone on the Internet Editing, reviewing, composing Publishers Web server

  13. Dissemination costs • Traditional:High • Parallel:Very high • E-only, for fee :Low • E-only, for free : Very low

  14. IFWAis coming

  15. Makingthe transition

  16. Two entomological societies FES: 450 members 1 journal (4 issues/year) $55,000/yr publishing costs ESA: 5700 members 4 journals (each 6 issues/year) $700,000/yr publishing costs

  17. ISI Journal Citation Reports 66 entomology journals Florida Entomologist30 J. Economic Entomology11 Environmental Entomology 13 Annals Entomol. Soc. Am.16 J. Medical Entomology13

  18. FloridaEntomological Society 100%IFWA since 1994

  19. Florida Entomological Society • 1993 Free access endorsed • 1994 Free access via PDF files

  20. Florida Entomological Society • 1993 Free access endorsed • 1994 Free access via PDF files • 1995 Switch from Gopher to Web • 1996 Minimal HTML files added

  21. Florida Entomological Society • 1993 Free access endorsed • 1994 Free access via PDF files • 1995 Switch from Gopher to Web • 1996 Minimal HTML files added • 1997 InfoLinks initiated • 1998 Full-text searching implemented • 1999 Back-issue project completed

  22. Florida Entomological Society Back-issue project • 1917-1993 issues (ca. 20,000 pages) • $11,255 for JSTOR-type scanning • PDF files posted, with free access, by Florida Center for Library Automation • Total cost to FES wasless than 60 cents per page

  23. Florida Entomological Society • 1993 Free access endorsed • 1994 Free access via PDF files • 1995 Switch from Gopher to Web • 1996 Minimal HTML files added • 1997 InfoLinks initiated • 1998 Full-text searching implemented • 1999 Back-issue project completed • 2000-2001 [in a minute!] • 2002 ISI to implement hotlinks to full text

  24. Institutional subscriptions

  25. Institutional subscriptions

  26. Institutional subscriptions

  27. Florida Entomological Society • 1993 Free access endorsed • 1994 Free access via PDF files • 1995 Switch from Gopher to Web • 1996 Minimal HTML files added • 1997 InfoLinks initiated • 1998 Full-text searching implemented • 1999 Back-issue project completed • 2000 Obligatory IFWA fee authorized

  28. Florida Entomologist Obligatory IFWA fees Articles $100 Scientific notes $ 50 To start with the March 2001 issue!

  29. Florida Entomological Society • 1993 Free access endorsed • 1994 Free access via PDF files • 1995 Switch from Gopher to Web • 1996 Minimal HTML files added • 1997 InfoLinks initiated • 1998 Full-text searching implemented • 1999 Back-issue project completed • 2000 Obligatory IFWA fee authorized • 2001 Obligatory IFWA fee accepted!!

  30. Institutional subscriptions

  31. Florida Entomologist 2001 IFWA gross income 90 articles @$100 = $9,000 36 sci. notes @$50 = $1,800 Total = $10,800 E-version costs 751 pages @$3.15 = $2,366 IFWA net income = $8,434

  32. Florida Entomologist 2001 Institutional subscriptions potential net income (185x$45)= $8,325 IFWA fees actual net income= $8,434

  33. Florida Entomologist 2001 IFWA fees actual net income = $8,434 needed to replace 20 subscriptions = 900 “windfall” income = $7,534

  34. Florida Entomologist

  35. Entomological Society of America currently ca. 55% IFWA

  36. Institutional Subscriptions

  37. Entomological Society of America • 1995 GB approves IFWA sales • 1996 GB approves IFWA sales again • 1997 GB cancels approval • 1998 GB votes to start for-fee e-access

  38. ESA:Economics for-fee e-versions Cost: $56,000 per year (ca. $14 per page published) Losses: to be held to no more than $80,000 for 2000-2004

  39. Entomological Society of America • 1995 GB approves IFWA sales • 1996 GB approves IFWA sales again • 1997 GB cancels approval • 1998 GB votes to start for-fee e-access • 1999 GB approves IFWA sales yet again • 2000 IFWA sales begin

  40. ESA’s IFWA revenues Year Pene- Pages Gross tration revenues 2000 25% 1446 $18,3912001 51% 2390 $31,259

  41. Institutional Subscriptions + IFWA

  42. ESA’s IFWA revenues Year Pene- Pages Gross tration revenues 2000 25% 1446 $18,3912001 51% 2390 $31,259 Mean gross per page =$12.94

  43. Ways to boost IFWA income • Improve the service

  44. Ways to improve the service • Allow immediate posting anywhere

  45. Ways to improve the service • Allow immediate posting anywhere • Seek hotlinks from Current Contents and other literature indexes • Post articles on OAI-compliant server • Post articles on PubMed Central • Facilitate Google indexing

  46. Ways to boost IFWA income • Improve the service • Change the name

  47. From“PDF reprints” to“PDF reprints Plus”???

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