1. 1 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy By Nol Verhagen for ICOLC 2009 Paris Acknowledgement: Tom Sanville

2. 2 About SEP Free Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/http://plato.stanford.edu/ Hosted and supported by Stanford University Business model: annual budget comes from an endowment that is being formed out of grants and one time membership dues from libraries http://plato.stanford.edu/support/sepi a.html http://plato.stanford.edu/support/sepi a.html

3. 3 About Money Needed: M$ 4.125 Until now received: M$ 3.325 Missing: M$ 0.75; but because library suppport has come slower than expected, the actual gap is M$ 1 Payment Scheme for European Libraries: - English-speaking: $ 3,150 one-time membership dues: United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand - Western Europe, Israel: $ 1,575 one-time membership dues -Eastern Europe: $ 630 one-time membership dues More details on http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=4189 # http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=4189 #

4. 4 About Participation Full participation in Europe: UK, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands No Participation at all: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine (Very) partial participation: Germany, Austria (2 libraries), Sweden (2 libraries); Still missing -50 German institutions + Max Planck Institutes -7 Austrian institutions -?? Swedish institutions

5. 5 About Usage Between September 2008 – September 2009 Austria 2225 Belgium 2365 Czech Rep 5465 France 4903 Germany 55822 Max Planck 5594 Israel 9613 Italy 9819 Japan14266 Norway 19079 Portugal 2516 Spain12574 Sweden 7323 Switzerland11874

6. 6 The Risk If the SEP is not able to make its endowment whole, it runs the risk of losing support from Stanford administration Under a reduced budget, the SEP would be forced to shrink operations, making it less useful as an ongoing resource

7. 7 How to Contribute? We hope you will be convinced and that you will register at http://www.pdcnet.org/sepia.ht ml. http://www.pdcnet.org/sepia.ht ml Alternatively, you may register your commitment by sending email to: editors@plato.stanford.edu