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The 2.5% Commitment Initiative

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Fall 2017 Project Briefings / The 2.5% Commitment Initiative

December 14, 2017

David W. Lewis
Dean of the Library
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Lori Goetsch
Dean of Libraries
Kansas State University

Mike Roy
Dean of the Library
Middlebury College

The “2.5% Commitment” initiative grew out of a paper by the same name written by David Lewis. It argues that additional contributions from academic libraries are required for infrastructure to support the open scholarly commons and encourages academic libraries to contribute 2.5% of their total budget to support open infrastructure and content. Establishing a norm of this sort is required to overcome the collective action problem libraries currently face. The first step in establishing this norm is to define what counts as “open infrastructure and content” and to create a tool that would allow academic libraries to measure their contribution in a uniform way. Unsurprisingly, this is not simple. This presentation will review the proposal in the Lewis paper and will describe initial efforts to define “open infrastructure and content.” It will also review the preliminary application of this common methodology across 20-30 academic libraries. This will show both how this group of libraries supports open infrastructure and content and to what extent a 2.5% commitment is a realistic or an aspirational goal.

https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/14063
scholarlycommons.net

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2017 Project Briefings, Economic Models, Project Briefing Pages
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Last updated:  Friday, December 22nd, 2017

 

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