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== Business Performance ==
 
== Business Performance ==
  
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The performance of the archive is noted in the following measurements (as of 3/31/2013):
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The performance of the archive is noted in the following measurements:
 
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! scope="col"| 31-Dec-12
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| Governing Libraries (GL)
 
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| Year over year increase
 
| Year over year increase
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| Participating Publishers incl. GP
 
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| Year over year increase
 
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== Critical Factors ==
 
== Critical Factors ==
  
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The critical factors for the sustainability of the archive is a steady number of renewing supporting libraries, a steady growth in the number of publishers, and the spread of revenues across the various fee levels. The underlying support of the technical work performed by the LOCKSS team is focused on the total income derived from publishers in the form of annual participation fees and ingests fees for their content. In 2011, the revenue level achieved a solid level of coverage of the technical team’s expenses. In 2012, the level of labor absorption, i.e. Total Fees from Publishers divided by the Total Costs of the LOCKSS Team) grew from 78.5% to 85%. The optimal goal is 90% or better, and this is reflected in our projections documented in the [[CLOCKSS: 2013-2018 Budget|CLOCKSS 5-Year Budget]].
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The critical factors for the sustainability of the archive is a steady number of renewing supporting libraries, a steady growth in the number of publishers, and the spread of revenues across the various fee levels. The underlying support of the technical work performed by the LOCKSS team is focused on the total income derived from publishers in the form of annual participation fees and ingests fees for their content. The optimal goal is 90% or better. By 2016 and 2017, fees from publishers reached 99% of the technical costs.
  
 
== Relevant Documents ==
 
== Relevant Documents ==
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* [[CLOCKSS: 2013-2018 Budget]]
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* Confidential: CLOCKSS financial filings 2014-2016; 2017 budget; 2018-2020 preliminary budgets
 
* [http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Supporting_Libraries Supporting Libraries]
 
* [http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Supporting_Libraries Supporting Libraries]
 
* [http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Participating_Publishers Participating Publishers]
 
* [http://www.clockss.org/clockss/Participating_Publishers Participating Publishers]

Latest revision as of 21:43, 12 August 2019

Contents

CLOCKSS: Business History

The CLOCKSS Archive transitioned from an initiative with part-time outreach support to fulltime management of outreach, financial processes, and marketing efforts in late January 2011. Randy S. Kiefer began as the first fulltime Executive Director of the CLOCKSS Archive. From that date, the organizational environment has stabilized and grown steadily.

Business Performance

The performance of the archive is noted in the following measurements:

Library Recap 31-Dec-13 31-Dec-14 31-Dec-15 31-Dec-16
Governing Libraries (GL) 12 12 12 12
Supporting Libraries incl. GL 710 722 747 672
Year over year increase 464 12 25 (75)
Publisher Recap 31-Dec-13 31-Dec-14 31-Dec-15 31-Dec-16
Governing Publishers (GP) 11 10 10 10
Participating Publishers incl. GP 178 204 211 217
Year over year increase 58 26 7 6

Critical Factors

The critical factors for the sustainability of the archive is a steady number of renewing supporting libraries, a steady growth in the number of publishers, and the spread of revenues across the various fee levels. The underlying support of the technical work performed by the LOCKSS team is focused on the total income derived from publishers in the form of annual participation fees and ingests fees for their content. The optimal goal is 90% or better. By 2016 and 2017, fees from publishers reached 99% of the technical costs.

Relevant Documents

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