Annual Costs Per Deposit of Hosting Refereed Research Output Centrally Versus Institutionally

...(1) The cost of providing peer review (c. $500 per article -- though more efficient online procedures could lower that) is indeed the most expensive part of the process of providing a peer-reviewed article for free (OA) by depositing it in a central repository like Arxiv (or in the author's own Institutional Repository, IR). (2) And Arxiv does not provide the peer review. (Nor does any other repository.)...