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Environmental
Scan of Pricing Models for Online Content
Prepared by Albert W. Darimont
OnDisC Project
November 2001
©OnDisC Alliance 2001
1.
Executive Summary
2. Introduction
3. E-Business
Models
4. E-resources
in Today's Academic Libraries
5. Library
E-business
6. E-journals
7. Subject
Based Gateways
8. Content
Aggregators
9. Non-profit, subsidized
10. Content
Providers
11. Conclusion
12. References
Non-profit, subsidized
SunSITE (Sun Software, Information and Technology
Exchange)
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/
The Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE builds
digital collections and services while providing
information and support to digital library developers
worldwide. They are sponsored by The Library
of the University of California, Berkeley and
Sun Microsystems. SunSITE is developing the
technology for intelligent access to massive,
distributed collections of photographs, satellite
images, maps and text and has already produced
a number of digital collections hosted on their
computer(s) which are available to the public
through their web site. Currently, SunSITE is
serving 33 digital image and text collections.
The term serving means that the digital collection
is available online, on their computers under
their control but they have not yet made a commitment
to archive the collection permanently. SunSITE
also acts a Subject Based Gateway to other Digital
Library initiatives and provides a comprehensive
set of links to other digital collections. AMICO
and SCRAN are both included in SunSITE's directory
of other digital image collections along with
48 other digital image collections. SunSITE
also has a link to JSTOR in addition to 79 other
digital text collections.
(Notably absent from SunSITE's links to other
digital collections are those of Canada, for
example the Digital Library of Canada, CHIN,
and Images Canada .)
American Memory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/amhome.html
The American Memory digital collection is a
major component of the Library of Congress'
National Digital Library Program and it includes
more than 90 collections of digitized documents,
photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures,
and text from the Library's Americana collections.
The National Digital Library Program is a joint
public-private initiative that has received
funding in the order of US $60M over the
period 1996-2000. The website for the NDLP includes
a discussion of ten challenges facing the program
and one deals with sustainability[18]
Challenge Ten: Develop economic models for the
support of the National Digital Library.The
creation and maintenance of digital libraries
is very expensive. Costs are incurred for production,
for ongoing provision of access, and for preservation
of the digital information. The cost to develop
and operate a distributed architecture for long-term
archiving, migration, and backup of digital
materials will be high. Since the resource is
distributed among providers, the net cost tends
to be disguised. Libraries would benefit from
better estimates of costs and trends in cost
for production and maintenance of a corpus of
digital information.How can the continuing
costs of assembling content and providing access
to the American public best be met? Is technology
available that could offer better measurement
of benefits and savings? To whom do the greatest
benefits and savings accrue? Are there value-added
services the payment for which will subsidize
broad public access?
Colorado's Digitization Projects
http://coloradodigital.coalliance.org/cdp.html
This organization is similar to the federal
National Digital Library program, but on a smaller
state scale. Their web site contains useful
information for others wishing to implement
their own digital library program. Public funds
were used in the initial stages of the project;
the ongoing funding strategy is to acquire long
term funding commitments from both public and
private sources.
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
http://catalog.lapl.org/a_photo.html
This collection is an online subset of the Library's
extensive photograph collection and features
thumbnails and larger views (about 600x400 pixels).
The images are for personal use only, and commercial
use requires the payment of fees to the LAPL,
ranging from US $25 for educational media
up to $150 for advertising and product design.
Canada's Digital Collections
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/
An Industry Canada initiative gives people aged
15-30 entrepreneurial and technology-based job
experience converting collections of Canadian
material into digital form for display on the
SchoolNet web site.
Digital Library of Canada
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/index-e.html
The web site for the National Library of Canada
has links to wide number of digital collections,
educational sites and exhibitions, which are
grouped in the subject areas of Music, History
and Literature . Some examples of the digital
collections include: The Encyclopedia of Music
in Canada, the Glenn Gould Collection, Early
Canadiana Online, Images Canada, and the Canadian
Poetry Archive. The content is freely available
for personal and educational use, and in at
least the case of Images Canada (65,000 images),
the online images are of lower resolution with
higher resolution images available for extra
fees.
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