Business Models Across the Information Industry

Economic trends, technological developments, user needs, and pandemic impacts have accelerated several trends: Continuous product price inflation, static or declining library budgets, struggling small publishers and scholarly societes, online education and growing demand for intellectually rigorous digital resources, the flight to digital content as crowd avoidance among pandemic safety protocols, the Open Access movement, and the rise of Open Educational Resources. Rising production costs, .declining budgets, and growing demand creates competing pressures and threatens the sustainability of the information and scholarly communication ecosystem. As research, instruction, and learning are heavily reliant on this ecosystem, this research project draws on librarianship, publishing, business, and economics in pursuit of sustainable solutions.

Flexibility in pricing models, price stability, access models, new funding models, and creative technologies are needed for the long-term sustainability of the scholarly communication and information ecosystem.