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Chain Bridge Group provides business and strategic consulting services to learned and professional societies, university presses, cultural heritage organizations, and other academic and nonprofit initiatives.
Specific services for nonprofit publishers include:
Sustainability & business planning—
Chain Bridge Group helps all types of scholarly publishing projects become financially self-sustaining. We prepare detailed operating plans that support online research and reference resources, peer-reviewed journals, and other scholarly publishing initiatives.
Strategic planning—
Nonprofit publishers require a strategy that balances the dual imperatives of mission fulfillment and financial sustainability. Chain Bridge Group guides a nonprofit publisher in developing a strategy that achieves the priorities essential to its mission.
Publication outsourcing support—
Chain Bridge Group assists societies and other nonprofit publishers as they weigh the merits of self-publishing versus outsourcing for publishing services. For organizations considering outsourcing, we provide comprehensive decision-making support, including developing requests for proposals (RfP), evaluating tendered proposals, and helping to negotiate successful publishing agreements. We also help societies assess the risks and benefits of launching an online edition of a journal.
Product development—
Implementing a rigorous product development process allows publishers to identify, design, and build successful information services. Chain Bridge Group helps nonprofit publishers implement product development processes that consistently deliver well-conceived, high-demand online services.
Open access distribution models—
Chain Bridge Group helps societies and other publishers evaluate alternative business models capable of supporting open access distribution. We also develop operating plans that guide transitions from one income model to another.
Publishing portfolio analyses—
Chain Bridge Group analyzes publication portfolios, allowing nonprofit publishers to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of their publishing programs. A portfolio analysis provides a critical baseline for assessing the risk and potential of new publications, for introducing an online edition of a print publication, for new pricing policies, and for modifying membership benefits.
Publishing partnerships—
University presses, learned societies, and other nonprofit academic publishers can advance their missions by partnering with academic libraries and other university units. Chain Bridge Group helps nonprofit publishers, academic libraries, and other university units establish successful, long-term partnerships.
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