Does anyone have a good estimate of the real financial cost of running an OA repository?
On this list, Hélène Bosc has recently told some of the organisational obstacles in setting up an E-prints repository [1] - but she didnt mention finance as an issue. Also on this list, Dirk Pieper [2] drew attention to the 500th repository listed at BASE [3]. Similarly, Scientific Commons now covers 891 repositories in 51 countries [4]. From these pages one can see which countries are well covered, and hence deduce those which are not well covered. If one were to talk to the laggards, I suppose that some would mention the cost of any repository as a potential problem. It could be useful to have in one's back pocket some robust, and preferably audited, figures for fixed costs and running costs. N.Miradon [1] http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=113107 [2] http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=113744 [3] http://listserver.sigmaxi.org/sc/wa.exe?A2=ind07&L=american-scientist-open-access-forum&D=1&O=D&F=l&S=&P=113744 [4] http://en.scientificcommons.org/repository/overview
