1. Editorial and Business
Planning for Disciplinary
Repositories
A Case Study of Columbia
International Affairs Online
Kate Wittenberg

2. Columbia International Affairs
Online (CIAO)
 Original funding source: 3-year grant
from Mellon Foundation
 Primary source of content: Grey
Literature
 Primary Market: Research Libraries
 Pricing Model: Institutional
Subscriptions
 Status: Revenues cover costs plus R&D

3. New Publishing Model
 Responds to user needs for all
disciplinary content in one place
 Print content categories and formats no
longer restrict publishing options
 Utilizes expertise of libraries, IT, and
publishers

4. Content on CIAO
 Working Papers
 Policy Briefs
 Conference Proceedings
 Excerpts from Journals, Books
 Country Data
 Case Studies for Teaching

5. Repository Publishing and
Grey Literature
 Scholars’ thinking at its earliest stage
 Timely, often requires frequent updating
 Requires different form of peer review
 Benefits from discipline-appropriate
tools and functionality
 Useful in teaching as well as research
 Often not collected by libraries

6. Workflow
 Editorial outreach to research
organizations for content acquisition
 Site organization, design, and hosting
 Development of tools and functionality
 Business planning and marketing
 Subscription fulfillment

7. Disciplinary Repository Traits
 Imbeds grey literature content within an
infrastructure that adds value (maps,
country data feed, teaching cases,
course packs)
 Provides content and tools that assist
users in their research and teaching

8. New Priorities
 Rethink categories of traditional print
publications
 Develop content in response to
scholars’ research, teaching,
collaboration, and publishing needs
 Repositories as environments that lead
innovation in a discipline

9. Elements Needed for New
Repository Models to Emerge
 Interest and initiative from scholars
 Some mechanism for quality control
 Editorial outreach and development
 Marketing
 Business Plan
 Ideally, a collaboration between libraries
and publishers

10. Staffing Requirements
 Content Editor
 Web designer
 Programmer
 Marketing/outreach
 Business Planning

11. Challenges
 Faculty contribution of content
 Need for maintenance and addition of
new tools and functionality
 Acknowledgement of costs/need for
business planning

12. Cost/Sustainability Issues
 There is a cost to all of this work, and we will
require funds to support these projects
 Distinction between cost-recovery for non-
profits and revenues for commercial
publishers
 Consider tiered business models that
integrate some level of free content with
subscriptions

13. Proven Strategies for Repository
Development and Sustainability
 Editorially driven content acquisition
and development of “early stage”
scholarship
 Professional design and dissemination
 Innovative and effective business
planning that includes cost-recovery
and continuing R&D