Grants:Simple/Applications/WikiJournal User Group/2021/budget plan
WikiJournal User Group
Open access • Publication charge free • Public peer review • Wikipedia-integrated
Period: 1 July 2021 – 31 December 2021
Programs[edit]
For program aims and metrics, see programs plan
| Item | cost (US$) | Spent by Oct 15 |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Content contribution and community growth | |||
| Short video explainers | 500 | 0 | Technical elements for member onboarding |
| Community support and administrative growth | |||
| Crossref membership | 275 | 0 | Publisher membership with revenue <USD 1M, to be paid in January 2022 |
| COPE membership | 806 | 0 | Note: Publisher membership (£584), to be paid in January 2022 |
| OASPA membership | 328 | 0 | Professional Small Publishers (€275.00) |
| CLOCKSS membership | 242 | 0 | Publisher membership with revenue <USD 250k |
| Outreach, awareness and partnerships | |||
| Short video explainers | 500 | 0 | Explaining journal features and formats for outreach |
| ACRL presentation | 439 | 0 | Registration to conference of Association of College & Research Libraries |
Staffing[edit]
For role descriptions, see staffing plan
| Item | cost (US$) | Spent by Oct 15 |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | 0 | Distributed dynamically across 6 technical editors. | |
| Tax filing | 2,000 | 0 | estimated |
Back end development[edit]
| Item | cost (US$) | Spent by Oct 15 |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Back end development | 0 | Corresponding to one FTE for three months as a specific project contractor. To be organised with Public Knowledge Project's Open Journal Systems (Development team). Detailed task description. |
Operational expenses[edit]
| Item | cost (US$) | Spent by Oct 15 |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance coverage estimate | 15,000 | 17 448.75 | Management Liability (D&O & EPL) Package, Miscellaneous E&O (Errors and Omissions) and Cyber. Expenditure includes a $30.00 Wells Fargo wire transfer fee. |
| Corporate lawyer counsel | 1,000 | 270 | Advice on bylaws wording request equivalent to “The organisation will never be sold to another publisher.”[lower-alpha 1] |
| Payroll service (OnPay) | 360 | 0 | $60/month (OnPay) |
| Domain fees | 48 | 0 | WikiJMed.org ; WikiJSci.org ; WikiJHum.org ; WikiJPPB.org Next payment on Oct 27, 2021 |
| Bank account | 2 | 30 | Transfer fee |
Preliminary total[edit]
- Initial request: $56,500 (items in strikethrough indicate cut spends)
- Awarded: $40,000
- Remaining at Dec 29, 2021: $24,477.52
- Includes $ 1 959.27 remaining from previous Rapid Grant (see Grants:Project/Rapid/WikiJournal 2021 (Jan-June)/Report)
Notes[edit]
- ↑ This is because a number of other Open Access journal publishers (e.g. Hindawi, Biomed Central, F1000 etc), have increasingly been bought up by the megapublishers (e.g. Elsevier/Wiley/Springer).