Preprint servers face closure because of money troubles

rebecca
Sun, 16 Feb 2020 07:09:25 +0000
Open and replicable science

Why on earth would anyone practice the same fee structure for repositories in developing countries as in developed countries? 1000 USD is about 5-6 times more than the monthly salary for many faculty members in Indonesia…

"INA-Rxiv, ArabiXiv, AfricArxiv and IndiaRxiv are run by volunteers around the world, but the servers are hosted online by the non-profit Center for Open Science (COS), based in Charlottesville, Virginia. The centre’s platform hosts 26 repositories, including more than a dozen that are discipline-specific.

In December 2018, the COS informed repository managers that from 2020, it would be introducing fees, charged to repository managers, to cover maintenance costs. The charges, which were finalized last December, start at about US$1,000 a year, and increase as repositories’ annual submissions grow."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00363-3

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