Alternatives to COS
This thread is a place to collect the alternatives to COS. Several organizations and individuals are contacting members of the EarthArXiv community with options. This thread serves as a place to aggregate and discuss these ideas.
Dasapta Erwin Irawan Wed 29 Jan 2020 12:25PM
Ubiquity repository. I just googled. It looks interesting.
Tom Narock Wed 29 Jan 2020 4:16PM
Ubiquity repository has offered to host a video call next Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 2pm Eastern time. Please let me know if you - or anyone else - is interested and I'll pass along the details when they become available
Bruce Caron Wed 29 Jan 2020 4:41PM
Ask them what their plan is to be self-funded for the next 30 years 🙂
Christopher Jackson Wed 29 Jan 2020 7:53PM
Send me details please when you have them.
Christopher Jackson Tue 28 Jan 2020 9:02PM
Hi All, I've had a few chats with folks, mainly via Twitter DM! So, first, Marshall Brennan from ChemArXiv has been super-helpful and mentioned Cambridge OpenEngage's (current contact is Emily Marchant - [email protected]). They've not move to them yet, but are interested. He also mentioned FigShare...and was also slightly dismissive about partnering with a university, suggesting arXiv had had issues with Cornell. Next, Juan Pablo Alperin mentioned that PKP (Public Knowledge Project) can help somehow; they are building an OS preprint platform based on the OJS codebase. And then I had a weird message from someone at the Geological Society of London, who mentioned they would be interested in chatting...
Dasapta Erwin Irawan Wed 29 Jan 2020 12:24PM
Hi Chris. Thank you for sharing the offers from other initiatives/organizations. I think all are worth to consider.
Dasapta Erwin Irawan Wed 29 Jan 2020 12:21PM
Hi all. Apology for my late comment. Thank you for sharing the letter. I think it's a straight forward letter. FYI INArxiv has already sent a similar letter. So in our campaign since January (via Facebook page, blog, and twitter) we are putting INArxiv not as a server but as a self-archiving movement. We share some options for users to be independent to find their own convenient alternative (such as their own institutional repository, Zenodo -- we have setup an INArxiv community there, and other repository like Figshare, preprints.org, PeerJ).
Bryan Lougheed Fri 31 Jan 2020 5:25PM
That's an interesting idea. Indeed, as authors we can post preprints ourselves on available servers such as Zenodo or institutional repositories. All eartharxiv would have to be in that case would be a website with a searchable list of dois that have been approved/moderated. Not a preprint server, but a preprint directory, as it were.
Dasapta Erwin Irawan Fri 31 Jan 2020 10:28PM
Thank you Bryan. Along with that option, we still are looking an engagement with Indonesia's institution that willing to share some of their server space to contribute to the project. The name INArxiv is no longer ours (current committee) to keep, but it would be a co-branding to the contributed servers. One of the intensive discussion we have is with the committee of RIN (Repositori Ilmiah Nasional/National Scientific Repository/rin.lipi.go.id) using PKP's open source platform for preprint.
Tom Narock · Tue 28 Jan 2020 12:38PM
Ubiquity Press has also reached out to us. They have a new repository platform (https://www.u-repo.io/), which is an open source platform with no technical or contractual lock-in. It is a platform developed in partnership with the British Library and the University of Virginia.
I don't know much about this platform and its features. I'm trying to schedule a call with them to learn more. As I understand it, this is not a hosting organization/location, but rather free open source software that we could deploy at a to-be-determined location.