diff --git a/finances/templates/finances/business_model.html b/finances/templates/finances/business_model.html index 213dbf201b55bf543ae10107e7c57f1e037cbf94..6dfdd3d4910b2141ea134d9e076c95d5eb537e91 100644 --- a/finances/templates/finances/business_model.html +++ b/finances/templates/finances/business_model.html @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ <li><a href="#organizations">The Organizations Pages</a></li> <li><a href="#pubFractions">The PubFractions System</a></li> <li><a href="#sponsorshipLevels">Sponsorship Levels</a></li> + <li><a href="#inKind">In-kind support</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#why">Why do we push for this Business Model?</a></li> @@ -273,6 +274,63 @@ {% endif %} </div> + + <h3 class="highlight" id="inKind">In-kind Support</h3> + + <div class="m-2"> + <p> + Sponsorships allow us to cover our central personnel and operational costs, + and are absolutely crucial to our sustainability. + They are however not the only way Organizations can concretely help us in our mission. + </p> + <p> + We also welcome <strong>in-kind</strong> support from Organizations, in any + useful form including (but in no way limited to): + <ul> + <li><strong>sponsorship coordination</strong><br> + Is someone (perhaps a library employee or Open Access officer?) + willing to help us run our sponsorship scheme, by for example + acting as national/regional contact person or coordinator? + </li> + <li><strong>development assistance</strong><br> + Does your Organization have an ICT service with professional-level + web programmers? Is any one of them open to the idea of contributing + to our project, even on an occasional basis? + We can then give them access to our repository at + <a href="https://code.scipost.org/">code.scipost.org</a> where we keep + all codebases for our online facilities. + </li> + <li><strong>editorial coordination</strong><br> + Does your Organization already have editorial-level staff + with broad knowledge of best practices regarding plagiarism, + reviewing, archiving, metadata maintenance etc? Within our + infrastructure, it is easy for such qualified personnel to contribute to + the running of our workflows. + </li> + </ul> + </p> + <p> + In-kind support is particularly interesting for us for the following reasons: + <ul> + <li>it helps Organizations which benefit from our activities to + maintain a close relationship with us, to be well aware of our current + activities and development plans, and to help us set priorities for the + future</li> + <li>it provides a channel for significantly useful but non-financial support; + this can be particularly interesting for institutions which are facing + financial pressures but nonetheless have qualified personnel willing to help</li> + <li>it helps making clear that our unitiative belongs to the academic + community</li> + <li>in view of the fact that our initiative is resolutely international, + it helps us to remain aware of and cater for + national/regional/local preferences and ways of working.</li> + </ul> + </p> + <p>Is your Organization interesting in helping us with such in-kind support? Please + <a href="mailto:admin@scipost.org">contact our administration</a> to discuss + concrete possibilities.</p> + </div> + <h2 class="highlight" id="why">Why do we push for this business model?</h2> <div class="m-2">