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    • Does this work for consortia?
    • Why does the forecast data change?
    • What does the "Missing PTA" warning mean?
    • What does the "Missing Prices" warning mean?
    • What does the "Journal Whitelist" alert mean?
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    • What publishers are supported?
    • About Unsub
      • Does Unsub have an accessibility statement?
      • How is Unsub different from Consortium Manager?
      • Unsub and Open Source
      • Will Unsub be bought or acquired?
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Unsub and Open Source

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Last updated 2 years ago

We'd like to clarify two issues related to Unsub and open source.

Open Source but not Open Contribution

Unsub does not take contributions from outside contributors. We are a small team and it takes time to manage community contributions. We are however always eager to hear user feature requests and bug reports to improve the product.

The creator of the database BoltDB has of why his newer project litestream is open source BUT not open contribution.

Open Source but cannot be self-hosted

Many open source projects can be run by anyone, anywhere (server, local machine, etc.) - anyone can get the same outcome running it on their own as the owners of the project. So why would a project be open source but not be able to be self-hosted?

For Unsub, there is a significant component of user supplied data, as well as data curated in house, making it only possible to operate as a hosted application.

This situation is similar to those projects that are .

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