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EDA

Pre-launch

Authors never pay. Somebody has to.

Charging students to publish would defeat the entire point, and charging readers would too. So EDA runs on donations — and publishes exactly where every dollar goes.

What your money does

Our costs are small and almost entirely variable — they scale with the number of papers we review, not with staff. Reviewers and editors are volunteers. Nobody draws a salary.

  • DOI registration

    $0.25 per paper

    Crossref charges per record for posted content. This is the fee that makes your work permanently citable.

  • AI review panel

    ~$0.90 per submission

    Five advisory agents reading a full manuscript, with a hard cost ceiling per paper so a long submission cannot run away with the budget.

  • Storage and delivery

    ~$0.02 per paper per year

    Papers move to cheaper archival storage as they age. Published versions are kept forever.

  • Membership and compliance

    ~$200 per year

    Crossref membership, registration and the boring paperwork that keeps a publisher legitimate.

Your gift is not tax-deductible. EDA is pre-launch and currently runs as a sole proprietorship, Eda Holding. That means donations are ordinary taxable income to the business, not charitable gifts — you cannot deduct them, and your receipt is not a tax receipt.

We are working toward nonprofit status. Every dollar goes into running the platform — review, DOIs, storage — and we publish the numbers. If that changes, this page changes with it.

See our full financial position