# Lack of sustainability plans for preprint services risks their potential to...

**URL:** <https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/lack-of-sustainability-plans-for-preprint-services-risks-their-potential-to/1921>\
**Category:** Open and replicable science\
**Tags:** open-access, open-science, metascience, preprint, new-academia\
**Created:** [June 4, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/lack-of-sustainability-plans-for-preprint-services-risks-their-potential-to/1921 "2023-06-04T19:47:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![keithtse](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/onscienceandacademia.org/keithtse/32/224_2.png) [@keithtse](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/keithtse)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/lack-of-sustainability-plans-for-preprint-services-risks-their-potential-to/1921/1 "2023-06-04T19:47:49Z")

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What a fascinating blogpost that may be of central importance to us at IGDORE! @jonathon.a.coates

> **[Lack of sustainability plans for preprint services risks their potential to...](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2023/03/02/lack-of-sustainability-plans-for-preprint-services-risks-their-potential-to-improve-science/)**
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> During the COVID-19 pandemic, preprint servers became a vital mechanism for the rapid sharing and review of vital research. However, discussing the findings of a recent report, Naomi Penfold finds …

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**Author:** ![Gavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@Gavin](https://onscienceandacademia.org/u/Gavin)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2023, 9:26pm UTC](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/lack-of-sustainability-plans-for-preprint-services-risks-their-potential-to/1921/2 "2023-06-05T21:26:25Z")

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Yes, we discussed the introduction of fees for the COS hosted preprint servers on the forum in 2020: [Preprint servers face closure because of money troubles](https://onscienceandacademia.org/t/preprint-servers-face-closure-because-of-money-troubles/558)

Getting sustainable funding is part of [The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure](https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/), but unfortunately, it often seems to be a problem for these sorts of projects. It was interesting that the article also noted that governance of preprint services was also problematic – I didn’t expect that, but am not surprised. Setting up a good governance structure is probably at the back of the todo-list when you are building a new open science platform 😃