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In recent years, has grown into an essential open science infrastructure.

Our sustainability is however under threat.

Only 147 out of 1351 (a mere 11%) benefitting organizations have supported us.

This ongoing level of freeriding means we are now at a crossroads.

Academic organizations urgently need to change tack and fulfil their promise to sustainably support scientists-led, not-for-profit publishing infrastructure.

Help us convince them to support us.

jscaux.org/blog/post/2025/05/1

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@viroviacum @jscaux In my experience, if it has a price tag, you can justify paying for it. If it's basically free, and you want to make a voluntary donation, that's an administrative nightmare. (Sure, there are models for that, but there's a whole culture that has to change.)

@jscaux If suppliers don‘t send invoices we can‘t pay them. If - in case of SciPost - they don‘t set up long standing membership schemes with a documented outcome for the community and transparent financial scheme, libraries can‘t place the tax payer‘s money. We are lacking the SciPost invoice since January… and there is a plus for the community.

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