Hosted institutional repository pricing — DSpaceDirect $4K-$9K/yr; Digital Commons $10K-$12K/yr

Tier 1 hosted-storage products are affordable on a routine annual line item. LYRASIS DSpaceDirect, a turnkey hosted institutional repository, prices at $3,940/year (Small), $5,780/year (Medium), and $8,670/year (Large) at surveyed tiers. Elsevier / bepress Digital Commons runs $10,000-$12,000/year per surveyed library reports. These prices are well within ordinary departmental software budgets, and they fund a fully professional repository rather than just storage.

For C-0006: hosted Tier 1 pricing is a useful reference point because it demonstrates that the purchase of repository service is not what limits adoption. Tier 1 is affordable; what makes it insufficient is its architectural exposure to provider business decisions, jurisdictional risk, and funding-model dependency (C-0011, C-0020) — exposures Tier 3 closes structurally.

The Tier 3 deployment cost (E-0058: ~$46/year standalone, near-zero on existing infrastructure) is one to two orders of magnitude below these Tier 1 line items, while delivering the structural redundancy properties Tier 1 cannot.