Greetings, On Jul 18, 2004, at 1:08 PM, Martin Frank wrote:
However, based on knowledge of the costs associated with the hosting of journals at HighWire Press, it is estimated that a full fledged archive of NIH funded manuscripts at NIH would cost in the neighborhood of $75-100 million.
Wild (uncalled for!) speculation in my opinion (additonal FUD removed). According to David Lipman, this is off by at least an order of magnitude. They expect about 50-60,000 NIH funded manuscripts per year. Even a generous $100 per hosted manuscript* gives only $5-6 million. Lipman also pointed out that one would not expect to have to immediately deal with this number of articles. Considering that NLM can leverage off of the existing PubMed infrastructure, I think they are in quite good shape (even creating by hand good XML metadata with tagged references can be done for about $5/article). It should be noted that if this is really author-deposit of manuscripts (again, Lipman's impression of the intent of the legislative language), than this might even be doable on the same cost scale of arXiv.org ($1 - $10 per article). I suspect the real cost will be somewhere in the middle. Regards, Mark Mark Doyle Assistant Director, Journal Information Systems The American Physical Society * My understanding is that hosting an article on Highwire is about $100 per article.
