Membership

The Project is sustained by individual and institutional members. There is no other source of income.

We have resisted, since the Project's beginning in 2019, the various forms of monetisation now common to scholarly websites: we do not host advertising, we do not sell our texts to commercial aggregators, we do not solicit institutional subscriptions through the channels of the academic library market. We accept that this means our resources will remain modest. We hope it also means we remain free to work at our own pace and to publish the editions we consider worth publishing, rather than those whose market is largest.

What membership provides

Members of the Project receive access to the full catalogue of completed editions — at present approximately twenty-six volumes — together with all editorial materials supporting them: introductions, footnote apparatus, working bibliographies, glossaries of technical terms, and, where it has been preserved and where it adds something to the published edition, the internal editorial correspondence concerning specific textual decisions.

Members also receive monthly editorial bulletins — typically four to six paragraphs of news about work in progress, new manuscript sightings, conferences and publications by editors of the Project — and a more substantial annual report. The bulletins are not posted publicly. Members are welcome, but not required, to correspond with editors on questions relating to the texts in our catalogue.

Members do not receive: printed volumes (we publish electronically only), advance notification of forthcoming volumes (publication dates are uncertain and we prefer not to commit to them), or any commercial or transferable usage rights to the texts beyond personal study and reference.

Rates

Membership category	Annual rate	Conditions
Individual — student or early-career researcher	€ 28	Self-declared. We do not request documentation.
Individual — standard	€ 65	—
Individual — supporting	€ 140	For members who wish to contribute beyond the standard rate. There are no additional benefits.
Institutional — small (single department, monastery, or seminary)	€ 220	Up to twenty named users. Access by email-based authentication.
Institutional — standard (university or research institute)	€ 480	Up to one hundred named users.
Institutional — IP-based	by enquiry	For libraries preferring IP-range authentication. Please write to us.

Membership runs for twelve months from the date of payment. We do not bill automatically: members receive a renewal notice approximately a month before expiry and are free to renew or to allow the membership to lapse. We do not retain payment instruments on file.

How to subscribe

Subscription is currently handled by correspondence. We do not at present operate an automated checkout. Members in earlier years have generally found the existing arrangement, in which a personal email exchange initiates a SEPA transfer and the issuance of credentials, to be in keeping with the character of the Project. We do not intend to change this in the near future. If you wish to subscribe, please write to editor [at] ortpaterikon.com with your name, an indication of your institutional context if any, and the membership category you have in mind. We will reply within a week.

Sign-in for existing members is at the sign-in page. Credentials issued by the Project consist of an email address and a passphrase; we do not use social logins or third-party authentication providers.

Refunds and cancellation

Membership may be cancelled at any time on written request, and we will refund the unused balance of the membership period on a pro-rata basis if requested. We do not require an explanation. We do not, however, automatically refund expired memberships; if a member has forgotten to renew and lost access, we ask for a fresh subscription rather than a backdated renewal.

Sponsorship and donations

The Project accepts donations from individuals and from foundations. Donations are administered through the Stichting Paterikon, a foundation registered in the Netherlands (KvK number on request). Donations of over €1,000 receive a formal acknowledgement; donations of any size are appreciated and credited, with the donor's permission, in the annual report. We do not, however, accept donations in exchange for editorial influence over the catalogue, nor for the inclusion of named editions or texts that would not otherwise meet our editorial standards.

Bequests in support of the Project's continuation after the working life of the current editorial board are welcome and will be administered by the foundation. Please write to us for advice; we have a brief leaflet on this matter that we can send by post.