Lessons From the Open Library of Humanities

The Open Library of Humanities was launched almost half a decade ago with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In this article, we outline the problems we set out to address and the lessons we learned. Specifically, we note that, as we hypothesized, academic libraries are not necessarily cl...

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Main Authors:	Martin Paul Eve, Paula Clemente Vega, Caroline Edwards
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	openjournals.nl 2020-03-01
Series:	Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
Subjects:	open access publishing business models humanities sustainability
Online Access:	https://test.openjournals.nl/liberquarterly/article/view/10742

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description	The Open Library of Humanities was launched almost half a decade ago with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In this article, we outline the problems we set out to address and the lessons we learned. Specifically, we note that, as we hypothesized, academic libraries are not necessarily classical economic actors; that implementing consortial funding models requires much marketing labour; that there are substantial governance and administrative overheads in our model; that there are complex tax and VAT considerations for consortial arrangements; and that diverse revenue sources remain critical to our success.
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Lessons From the Open Library of Humanities

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