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> Late addition: The cost of distribution of a scientific journal in electronic format is minuscule "The annual budget for arXiv is approximately $826,000 for
by ssalazar 9y ago
> Late addition: The cost of distribution of a scientific journal in electronic format is minuscule
"The annual budget for arXiv is approximately $826,000 for 2013 to 2017, funded jointly by Cornell University Library, the Simons Foundation (in both gift and challenge grant forms) and annual fee income from member institutions."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv
> Medium.com is free.
Until its not, or until, as a commercial enterprise, Medium decides to completely pivot, or decides a controversial paper is too much bad publicity.
If I publish to Medium, will future researchers be able to find my article in 10 years? In 50?
Also I don't see how you've taken peer review into account here.