1. . Project FIGARO Introduction by Leo Waaijers, external expert to the FIGARO project, to the 4 th E-ICOLC Conference, October 4, 2002, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2. . Philosophy ofFIGARO Scientific progress thrives on the symbioses of creation and communication of knowledge. Hence, both creation and communication of knowledge are inherent tasks of the university (i.e. not to be outsourced!)

3. . Mission ofFIGARO We strive to provide effective and efficient e-publishing services to individual scientists and scientific organisations through the use of a shared organisational structure and the utilisation of open source and standard base software tools wherever possible.

4. . Result ofFIGARO To deliver a non profit operational open modular publication infrastructure for the European academic community at the end of 2004.

5. . Name of FIGARO Federated Infrastructure (or Initiative) of GAP (German Academic Publishers) and Roquade (Delft, Utrecht, Neth. Acad. Sc.)

6. .. Partners ofFIGARO Utrecht University (NL)Libraryco-ordinator Delft University (NL)Librarycontractor Oldenburg University (De)Librarycontractor Hamburg University(De)Computing Centrecontractor Firenze University (It)University Presscontractor Daidalos Ltd (NL)Software housecontractor Leuven University (Be)University Pressass. contractor Lund University (Se)R&D dept. NetLabass. contractor Lemma Ltd (NL)Publisherass. contractor DiG Ltd (Pl) Publisherass. contractor Delft Cluster (NL)Res. Foundationass. contractor SPARC (USA) Consortiumass. contractor

7. . Structure ofFIGARO

8. FIGARO Academic community

9. . Work packages FIGARO Project Management Utrecht Document toolsDaidalos Workflow toolsOldenburg Authentication/authorisationHamburg User evaluationFlorence Business modelUtrecht Future publishing modelsDelft Implementation Front OfficesUtrecht Implementation Back OfficeDelft Legal frameworkHamburg Project evaluationUtrecht Dissemination resultsSPARC

10. . During the project: Total project costs 2 million Euro, EC subsidises 1,4 million Euro. During the operational phase: Costs of the non profit Back Office recovered by the Front Offices, Money of FIGARO

11. . Income of Front Offices through  membership or participation fees,  fee-for-service (e.g., production, conversion, hosting services),  authors or their institutions paying publication fees,  authors or their institutions paying review fees (like examination fees),  institutional or organisational task based financing,  grants, donations or sponsorships,  in-kind contributions to offset expenses (e.g. free housing, equipment, networking),  other fees or sources of income.

12. . Money of FIGARO Basically any creative idea is OK as long as –it is not a high end of the market business, –and there is no assignment of copyrights involved in exchange for being published. The fundamento for making a living should be added value, not ownership. Scientific results have been created through public funding. Dissemination of knowledge is a task of the university.

13. . Beliefs of FIGARO SAMPLE OF JOURNAL PRICES (Current situation) Mary M. Case, A System in Crisis. Pittsburgh conference 2001: Scholarly Communication. 1995 2001 % Increase Brain Research$10,181$17,444 71.3% Biochim. Biophys. Acta $7,555$12,127 60.5% Chem. Phys. Letters $5,279 $9,637 82.6% Tetrahedron Letters $5,119 $9,036 76.5% Eur. Jrnl. of Pharmacology $4,576 $7,889 72.4% Gene $3,924 $7,443 89.7% Inorganica Chim. Acta $3,611 $6,726 86.3% Intl. Jrnl. of Pharmaceutics $3,006 $5,965 98.4% Neuroscience $3,487 $6,270 79.8% Theoretical Computer Science $2,774 $4,608 66.1% Jrnl. of Exp. Marine Bio. & Eco. $1,947 $3,501 79.8%

14. . Beliefs ofFIGARO SAMPLE OF JOURNAL PRICES (Future situation) Decrease

15. . Beliefs ofFIGARO Gradually growing away from the classical model by experimenting with: continuous publishing (i.e. no journal issues) open refereeing post publishing refereeing various income models etc. Remind, front offices are independent.

16. . Risks ofFIGARO During the project: Complexity. When operational: Quality of content

17. . Url of FIGARO www.figaro-europe.net/index.html