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If anyone is curious where the money to run arXiv goes, here is their 2010 budget and their business plan. http://arxiv.org/help/support/2010_budget http://arx
by sciurus 15y ago
If anyone is curious where the money to run arXiv goes, here is their 2010 budget and their business plan.
http://arxiv.org/help/support/2010_budget http://arxiv.org/help/support/2010_budget
http://arxiv.org/help/support/whitepaper http://arxiv.org/help/support/whitepaper
- _delirium 15y agoThat's actually insanely frugal--- $381,000 total budget! JSTOR is very reticent about their budget, but from IRS filings it appears their annual revenue is in the ballpark of $55-65 million, with about $8m of that going as payments/revenue-share to publishers, leaving somewhere north of $40m for JSTOR operations. It's hard to say how necessary a budget of that size is, made harder by the fact that they publish absolutely nothing about who they are, what they do with the money, how they plan for it, etc. The only source of financial information is their legally mandated annual IRS filing. There's an attempt to sort some of it out here: http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2011/jstor-where-does-your-money-go/ http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2011/jstor-where-does-your...