On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Mark delirium@hackish.org wrote:
But I haven't seen any evidence of their leadership having that kind of vision.
Fun facts: according to their 2009 IRS filing*, their income was $53 million. $23 million went to JSTOR employee salaries/compensation. The president makes >$500,000 and the executive vice president >$320,000; I'd list the various other managers making >$200k, but there's like 10 of them.
The expenses section is quite fascinating.
- IT in general costs them no more than $4.3m - They spent $1m on 'travel' and another $312k on 'Conferences, conventions, and meetings' - "journal acquisition & scan" costs $4.8m - "NITLE TRANSFER"** costs $4.4m - "fees & publisher payments"*** cost $8.3m
* http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2009/133/857/2009-133857105-06a32823-9... linked from http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/13-3857105/ithaka-harbors.aspx# ** 'title transfer'? Have no idea what this is. Hopefully such a colossal sum is buying something worth buying, like copyright to entire journals and it's just a misleading label. *** Am I reading this Form 990 right? Are they *really* spending 3 times more on their employees than is going to the publishers, or they spend on *all* their technical initiatives, scanning and servers and all? I am reminded of the WMF budget.