Sustaining the Digital Humanities: Host Institution Support Beyond the Start Up Phase

This project builds on the Ithaka Case Studies in Sustainability, which helped to surface the significance of the host institution as a key element in the survival of digital humanities projects. To unwrap the layers of assumptions concerning the sort of support a host institution is expected or hoped to be providing, this research will be based on a sector-wide scan to map key points in a project’s lifecycle when the host institution is likely to play a role and "deep dives" at two institutions to develop an in-depth picture of the range of digital humanities projects on these campuses. By examining the institutional support ecosystem and the value system that undergirds it, we will provide both project leaders and university decision-makers the data, examples, and guidance they need, including a toolkit to conduct their own research, to work together to encourage the long-term sustainability of the digital humanities resources that continue to enrich the scholarly landscape

Monograph Costing Tool: A User’s Guide

This tool is designed to help presses of all sizes determine the full costs of publishing monographs. It may be useful if you are preparing to apply for a subvention to publish a monograph and need an itemized cost statement. Or, it might just be information you need to have in order to better assess and run your business. The process described below will be easiest if centrally coordinated, whether by the press director, business manager, or the Chief Financial Officer. It will almost certainly require some time for departmental heads. Whether or not you choose to involve more staff in the process is up to you. Those who have done so have found that the process can have benefits well beyond the numbers. The Monograph Costing Tool is essentially one large Excel workbook with a summary sheet that draws the data into a comprehensive view. The workbook includes many tabs, whose data is linked throughout the workbook; when you enter data on one page, it often feeds to other cells on that page and other pages. The Tool’s authors have tried to make the math behind the calculations as simple and transparent as possible. One need just look on the formula line in Excel to see how data is aggregated on a given page, or how data is pulled from the tabs into the dashboard. Excel sheet is attached (below

Monograph Costing Tool: A User’s Guide

This tool is designed to help presses of all sizes determine the full costs of publishing monographs. It may be useful if you are preparing to apply for a subvention to publish a monograph and need an itemized cost statement. Or, it might just be information you need to have in order to better assess and run your business. The process described below will be easiest if centrally coordinated, whether by the press director, business manager, or the Chief Financial Officer. It will almost certainly require some time for departmental heads. Whether or not you choose to involve more staff in the process is up to you. Those who have done so have found that the process can have benefits well beyond the numbers. The Monograph Costing Tool is essentially one large Excel workbook with a summary sheet that draws the data into a comprehensive view. The workbook includes many tabs, whose data is linked throughout the workbook; when you enter data on one page, it often feeds to other cells on that page and other pages. The Tool’s authors have tried to make the math behind the calculations as simple and transparent as possible. One need just look on the formula line in Excel to see how data is aggregated on a given page, or how data is pulled from the tabs into the dashboard. Excel sheet is attached (below

Publarians and Lubishers: Role Bending in the New Scholarly Communications Ecosystem

It has been said that the work of publishers and librarians will merge over time until we are all publarians and lublishers. Do we still envision a shared future? As new publishing programs within libraries and experimental publisher-library collaborations continue to challenge us to move outside of our comfort zones, are we learning from each other? What are some practical, down-to-earth ways that we can take advantage of each other’s expertise? How can we produce and market scholarly content in a more integrated way to meet the needs of scholars in a digital-information ecosystem, without duplicating effort on separate tracks? How might we address sustainability through combined, hybrid business models? In this session, some experienced experimenters and role benders in the world of the humanities will share lessons learned and attempt to chart a way forward to a shared future

How Much Do Monographs Cost? And Why Should We Care?

What does it cost to make a high quality, digital monograph? What may sound like an obvious question turns out to be a very knotty one, driving to the heart of the essence of scholarly publishing today. It is particularly relevant in an environment where the potential of a sustainable open access (OA) business model for monographs is being explored. Two complementary studies funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2015 have explored this question to understand the costs involved in creating and disseminating scholarly books. The team at Ithaka S+R studied the full costs of publishing monographs by gathering cost data on a sample of 382 titles across 20 presses. This process involved working with directors, CFOs, and many operational staff to understand the way staff time and effort contribute to the publishing process. In parallel, a separate project at Michigan and Indiana used a top‐down model to identify those costs related to monograph publishing at the University of Michigan Press and Indiana University Press. This cost study was part of a larger project in which focus groups and interviews were conducted with faculty and administrators to explore institutional openness to a flipped business model where the costs of producing a monograph would be borne by the author’s parent institution. The data from these two projects will help to understand how an OA monograph model could work. The studies also get at issues critical to the future of scholarly publishing: Which activities are critical to the creation of scholarly books? When does authoring end and publishing begin? How great a role do publishers play in not just producing a book, but in asserting its place in the scholarship and in current debates? A flipped model of funding monographs has major implications for publishers, libraries, and faculty, so a deep understanding of such questions is essential for the long‐term health of the scholarly communication ecosystem, especially in the humanities and social sciences

Searching for Sustainability: Strategies from Eight Digitized Special Collections: A Report from Ithaka S+R and the Association of Research Libraries

This report aims to address one of the biggest challenges facing libraries and cultural heritage organizations: how to move their special collections into the 21st century through digitization while developing successful strategies to make sure those collections remain accessible and relevant over time. Through a cooperative agreement as part of the National Leadership Grants Program, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), in partnership with Ithaka S+R, to undertake in-depth case studies of institutions that have worked to build the audience, infrastructure, and funding models necessary to maintain and grow their digital collections. The eight collections profiled provide useful models and examples of good practice for project leaders to consider when digitizing their own materials. We hope that these case studies will encourage greater discussion among individuals in the academic library and cultural heritage communities about the reasons why they invest so much time and energy in the creation and ongoing management of their digitized special collections, the goals they set for them, and the planning needed to realize those aims. These questions become even more pressing in an environment where the traditional sources of funding for digitization are beginning to wane. In the coming years, the ability to identify secure sources of support and to demonstrate impact over time will undoubtedly become increasingly important

Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries

Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and conducted by Ithaka S+R, this study provides insight into how ARL libraries are managing and funding the hundreds of digitized special collections they have created and that they believe to be critical to their futures. This is the first survey of ARL institutions that specifically attempts to understand and benchmark the activities and costs of supporting these collections after they are created. By looking at questions of management, costs, funding sources, impact, and outreach, the survey offers data that will deliver insight to all those engaged in sustaining digitized special collections

Cultura Organizacional y desempeño laboral en los trabajadores del Proyecto Especial Binacional lago Titicaca (PELT) Puno - 2016

La finalidad del presente trabajo de investigación es determinar el grado de relación de la Cultura Organizacional y desempeño laboral en los trabajadores del Proyecto Especial Binacional Lago Titicaca (PELT) Puno - 2016. Asimismo, conocer la relación de la motivación, políticas y valores como el desempeño laboral y la cultura organizacional en el personal que trabaja del proyecto. La metodología y los materiales y el tipo de investigación es cuantitativo, aplicado, no experimental, transversal con una población de estudio de 115 trabajadores y una muestra 51 para el trabajo de campo. Se muestra en los resultados que la cultura organizacional atesora una relación significativa en el desempeño laboral en trabajadores del Proyecto Especial Binacional Lago Titicaca (PELT) Puno. A un grado de significancia de 5%. Dado que se observa que la política de la cultura organizacional es buena que representa el 45,1%; y 39,2% tiene buen desempeño como se aprecia en los datos, cae en la región de rechazo y se consiente la hipótesis Ha. Según los datos, se desploma en la región de rechazo, por lo tanto, significa cuyas creencias de la cultura organizacional atesora un grado de relación significativa en el desempeño laboral en trabajadores del Proyecto Especial Binacional Lago Titicaca (PELT) Según los datos, t 5.049 cal se desploma en la región de rechazo, lo cual significa que las creencias de la cultura organizacional llevan un grado de relación significativa en el desempeño laboral en el personal que labora. Como se aprecia en los datos, t 3.738 cal se desploma en una región de rechazo, lo que significa que los valores de la cultura organizacional guardan una relación significativa con el desempeño laboral. En conclusión, La cultura organizacional guarda un grado de relación significativa en el desempeño laboral en el personal que labora en el Proyecto Especial Binacional Lago Titicaca (PELT), Dado que se aprecia en los datos, t 7.818 cal se desploma en la región de rechazo, lo cual significa que la cultura organizacional es regular 39,2% y bueno 39,2% y el desempeño laboral es medio que representa el 51,0% y una minoría tiene desempeño bajo o alto.Tesi

The Cost to Publish TOME Monographs: A Preliminary Report

A study of the costs incurred by university presses in publishing scholarly monographs through the TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) pilot project. Researchers received data from 15 publishers on 57 TOME titles published through mid-2021. This report will be incorporated into a full assessment of the TOME pilot