CLOCKSS: Business History
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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
- Confidential: CLOCKSS financial filings 2014-2016; 2017 budget; 2018-2020 preliminary budgets
- Supporting Libraries
- Participating Publishers
