<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[With apologies for cross-posting]</font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi all,</font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">I thought you might be interested in this blog post, published today by eLife&#39;s Head of Technology, Paul Shannon, which </span>discusses the <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">cost </span><span style="color:black">of running our own continuous publication platform four months after the launch of eLife 2.0.</span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Continuum is the platform that powers eLife 2.0. It is available as free open-source software and licensed under an </span><a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" target="_blank"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">MIT licence</span></a><span style="color:black"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, meaning that you can use it as you wish, even for commercial purposes. </span></span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">However, as with any software, even though its ticket price may be zero, there are still running, maintenance and people costs involved. You can read more about these in Paul’s blog post: </span><a href="https://elifesciences.org/labs/85a7155a" target="_blank"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">https://elifesciences.<wbr>org/labs/85a7155a</span></a><span style="color:black"></span></font></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you’d like more information, or to speak with us further about this, please don’t hesitate to contact me.</font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Best wishes,<span class="gmail-m_-2351885395389219422gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></p><p style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Emily</font></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p><img src="http://cdn.elifesciences.org/images/elife_final_logo_rgb.jpg" width="96" height="39" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br></p><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p>Emily Packer<br>Senior Press Officer</p><p>+44 1223 855373 (office)</p><p><a href="http://elifesciences.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://elifesciences.org</a></p><p>eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd is a limited liability non-profit non-stock corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware, USA, with company number 5030732, and is registered in the UK with company number FC030576 and branch number BR015634 at the address First Floor, 24 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1JP.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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