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How can we inoculate academic publishing against bad business practices?

How can we build a more affordable and equitable system, for the sake of academia?

Like this: https://scipost.org/finances/business_model/

Look into it.
Let others know about it.
Help us build it.

#SustainOurServices #AntidoteToAPCs

The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure embody a set of guidelines through which research community-serving organizations can be operated and sustained.

As part of our #SustainOurServices campaign, we have published a detailed self-audit describing the relevance and implementation status of these principles.

The situation is very good to excellent on the governance and insurance side, but some aspects of the sustainability side need urgent attention.

https://scipost.org/posi

Today we are launching SciPost's Sustain Our Services Campaign.

This campaign has the following primary objectives: to ensure continuity of support for our services; to engage organizations which have benefitted from our activities, but not yet supported us; to reduce our financial uncertainty; to empower our growth and widen the positive impact we have.

We look forward to engaging with you during the course of this campaign!

https://scipost.org/news/newsitem/126/

#SustainOurServices

We've just published a post on our blog https://scipost.org/blog/, looking back at our operations in 2023.

2023 saw us publish 748 papers, with a unit average expenditure of €495.

We grew our team to keep up with increasing demand on our Genuine Open Access services; though this reduced backlogs, it depleted our financial reserves. Our growth is stunted and our long-term financial sustainability remains a distant perspective due to challenges in gathering support.

Our mission is far from over!