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@hattom@mastodon.social @jedbrown@hachyderm.io @AlanSill@mast.hpc.social Journals indeed have costs, although the “publish, store, and maintain” part is that expensive as the JOSS example and pre-print servers show. BioRxiv, MedRxiv & Co. maintain thousands of manuscripts on a fairly small budget (completely carried by funders and at no cost to the authors). The Gates Foundation explicitly said that they want to invest the money they save on APCs into infrastructure (e.g. already have their own preprint server).