ATG Interviews Ann Okerson and Alex Holzman

In an interview, Ann Okerson, senior adviser, Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries, and Alex Holzman, President, Alex Publishing Solutions, talked about publishing libraries. They said that the differing models libraries are following as they embark on the business of producing scholarly content is the primary model is open access, using mainly funds from the overall library budget. There are variations on this, even including end-user pays subscription models, but the open access model is most often funded by the library budget, though sometimes by the home institution out of a separate pocket or by outside foundations. Unless things have changed mightily since our survey, the leading form of support is the library budget itself It's not entirely clear what this means in terms of sustainability, but time will tell. As we noted earlier, support also sometimes comes from the home institution (outside the library budget), grants, and other parties involved in a particular publication. Rarely, but occasionally, there are end-user payments.