Publishing and Archiving Costs

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Open Context provides researchers with the following services:

  • Editing, annotation, peer-review and open access publishing for research data and media
  • Data archiving with the University of California's Merritt digital repository (managed by the California Digital Library)

While data published by Open Context are free to use, Open Context charges contributing researchers fees for publishing and archiving services.

Data Management Plan Cost Estimates for Publishing and Archiving

The form provided below will help you prepare and estimate a ball-park budget for your grant "Data Management Plan" (DMP). Use of this form is anonymous. We will shortly update this form to provide more specific guidance on steps you can take to improve your project's data management workflows, including specific language to add to your Data Management Plan. This language will include a description of interoperability, access, and archiving issues that help determine the research value of shared data. Please note, completing this form does not imply or constitute a binding agreement.

Project Contact Information
Graduate student projects, including Data Management Plan costs for doctoral dissertation grants, receive a 25% discount
Project Database Size and Complexity
The number of different specialists making datasets (zooarchaeology, lithic analysis, etc.)
Estimated number of tables in all of the project's relational databases and spreadsheets
Project Media Size and Complexity
None
1 - 100
100 - 1000
1000 - 10000
more than 10000
None
1 - 10
10 - 100
100 - 1000
more than 1000
None
1
1 - 5
5 - 10
More than 10
None
1 - 10
10 - 100
100 - 1000
more than 1000
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