New financial model for TA

A new model is currently being negotiated to allocate the costs of the transformation contracts among the members of each consortium.

Negotiations are in progress between CzechElib and selected member institutions of the consortia. CzechElib is negotiating these new conditions with the EIZ WG at AKVŠ, representatives of the CAS and other relevant stakeholders. We expect that a consensus of the academic community on the principles of the new model will be reached during the summer of 2024. Subsequently, the model will be formalised into a new Methodology, which will be discussed by the Expert Council during the autumn and winter and finally approved by the CzechELib Steering Committee.

Three pre-selected options for a new arrangement are discussed: the ‘Swedish’ model, see the study by Robert VAN DER VOOREN for the National Library of Sweden: Introducing pay-to-publish in cost distribution models of ‘The Bibsam Consortium, Sweden’, the ‘Vienna’ model, see the poster by Brigitte KROMP presented at the Berlin Open Access Conference: Transformative Cost-Sharing Model in Austria, and the ‘Czech’ model, which combines both approaches mentioned above.

These approaches and options differ mainly in the method for redistributing the allocated tokens among the consortium members, and the method for allocating payments between publishing and non-publishing institutions, as well as in the underlying data used and the degree of influence of each source on the final calculation (readership, data from publisher dashboards, WoS data, etc.).

The result of this process should be a model that is perceived as fair, understandable and as transparent as possible.