Recently we contacted you about the SciPost Supporting Partners Board. We would like to know if you and your institution are interested in joining the Supporting Partners Board.
We recently contacted you concerning SciPost, and to probe your interest in joining its Supporting Partners Board. With this follow-up email, I would simply like to check whether you got the original message.
It is greatly appreciated if you could take a few minutes to read through this document and let us know whether your institution would consider joining.
It would be a privilege to welcome you as members of our Supporting Partners Board. Support takes the form of a small financial commitment, collectively pooled to enable SciPost to perform all its publication-related activities, maintain its online portal and implement its long-term development plan.
Your support at this time is crucially required to make our initiative sustainable, and to help make it possible for the community to reap all the benefits deriving form its viable implementation.
SciPost (https://scipost.org) is a next-generation publication portal aiming to transform the business of scientific publishing. You can find a one-page summary in our online prospectus (https://scipost.org/static/scipost/SPB/SciPost_Supporting_Partners_Board_Prospectus.pdf) outlining the reasons why joining would be beneficial for your institution.
I will be happy to provide any required further details. If you are interested, you can simply get in touch via this address (partners@scipost.org). I sincerely hope that SciPost will be able to count on your support.
If you not the right person in your organization to contact about this topic, please let us know.
If you not the right representative to get in touch with, could you please forward this to the right person, or let us know?
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Crucially, as explained on our Partners page at https://scipost.org/partners, SciPost follows a completely different funding model than traditional publishers, and provides a cost-slashing alternative to existing platforms. SciPost charges neither subscription fees, nor article processing charges; its activities are instead to be collectively financed through a Supporting Partners Board, formed by a worldwide consortium of institutions and organizations which directly or indirectly benefit from SciPost’s activities.
A short summary of important aspects of SciPost and reasons for you to join its Supporting Partners Board are given in our one-page prospectus (https://scipost.org/static/scipost/SPB/SciPost_Supporting_Partners_Board_Prospectus.pdf).
Support takes the form of a small financial commitment, collectively pooled to enable SciPost to perform all its publication-related activities, maintain its online portal and implement its long-term development plan.
In the agreement template, which you can find online at https://scipost.org/static/scipost/SPB/SciPost_Supporting_Partner_Agreement.pdf, you will find many more specific details about our operations, requirements and funding strategy. I would greatly appreciate if you took a few minutes to read through this document.
