The Planetary Research Cooperative offers all its services to the planetary science community for free, but these services have a price. We rely on donations from individuals, contributions from research grants, and contributions from institutions to pay these costs.

The internal costs of the association are separated into two categories. First, there are costs for running the association’s internet services, which include email accounts, web hosting, cloud storage, and hosting of our Mastodon, Mattermost, and (soon) Peertube servers. Together, these come to about 300 € per year. Secondly, there are costs for running the journal Planetary Research, which is mostly for the conversion of author submitted manuscripts to final publication PDF and HTML formats. This will eventually cost us about 30,000 € per year.

It is our objective to pay all journal costs using contributions from research grants and subsidies from planetary science institutions. The cost of running the association, however, will be funded entirely by individual donations from members.

If you would like an invoice to make a contribution using a research grant, or to make a contribution by bank transfer to our account at Wise, please click this link.

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