@SteveBHolt Great point, about time that such core academic service is transferred back to university libraries where it belongs. For the time being, there’s https://scholar.archive.org (a charity organisation) which works pleasantly well, and doesn’t play the game of citations and h-index and similar rubbish metrics of academic performance, focusing instead on archiving and ensuring access to the papers.

@nemobis Ensure an association of multiple public universities is in charge—so as to make it impossible, by committee, for it to change hands—and establish the charter with strong statutes that prevent such take over. Many charities have existed for centuries in one form or another. An academic library should be able to as well.