[LIS-Forum] Costs of setting up an institutional OA archive

[Subbiah Arunachalam]

Friends:

Richard Poynder says in his article in Information Today: 
"Indeed, libraries are finding that they have to not only continue paying traditional journal subscriptions, but they have to pay OA membership fees too. And to cap it all off, many are also being asked to create institutional repositories-a process costing anywhere from $7,000 to $2.5 million in setup fees and at least $40,000 a year in running costs."

Are these figures OK? We should collect data from all the institutional archives operating now (in the world as a whole) as well as look at the costs of centralised archives such as Cornell's arXiv. At least in India, setting up of an institutional archive would cost much less. Dr T B Rajashekar of NCSI-IISc, Dr A R D Prasad of DRTC-ISI, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow, Ms Naina Panditha of NIC, Mr Sreekumar of IIMK, Prof. B Viswanathan of Catlysis Society of India, and Dr Krishnan of NCL may kindly comment on this point.

Regards.

Arun


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Friends:
 
Richard Poynder says in his article in
Information Today
:
"Indeed, libraries are finding that they have to not only continue paying traditional journal subscriptions, but they have to pay OA membership fees too. And to cap it all off, many are also being asked to create institutional repositories—a process costing anywhere from $7,000 to $2.5 million in setup fees and at least $40,000 a year in running costs."
Are these figures OK? We should collect data from all the institutional archives operating now (in the world as a whole) as well as look at the costs of centralised archives such as Cornell's arXiv. At least in India, setting up of an institutional archive would cost much less. Dr T B Rajashekar of NCSI-IISc, Dr A R D Prasad of DRTC-ISI, Dr D K Sahu of MedKnow, Ms Naina Panditha of NIC, Mr Sreekumar of IIMK, Prof. B Viswanathan of Catlysis Society of India, and Dr Krishnan of NCL may kindly comment on this point.
Regards.
Arun