The problem, as a member sees it
No researcher can keep up with the literature of their own field any more. Papers that concern them appear every day; the ones they wrote themselves over thirty years they have never seen all together; and redoing the state of the art on a topic takes days nobody has.
It is not a problem of missing tools: the archives exist. It is that they are all built for searching, and none of them for looking down on your own field from above.
What a member receives
Private pages, built on the work they have published. They arrive finished: the member signs up for nothing, enters nothing, installs nothing.
Their entire body of work
Divided into the seasons in which it actually unfolded, not into decades decided at a desk. Across a 1,717-paper career: eight seasons, and 1,715 papers placed without losing one.
The maps of their field
The themes they work on, with their own papers marked inside, and the world map of where that research is being done today.
Questions, with the sources
Answers that cite only real papers, with the reference beside every sentence — and that declare they do not know when the papers are not there.
Every morning, the new papers
A radar on their themes, and the weekly watch on who is citing them.
And one check nobody can do by hand: which of the papers they cite have since been retracted. Across a career with 9,955 references, sixteen came to light.
What changes for the society
- A service the members can see, not a budget line nobody notices: it
reaches each of them individually, with their own name on it.
- One more reason to join, and to stay — above all for those starting out,
who are choosing which society to affiliate with.
- No burden: no system to administer, no member data to pass to us, no work
for the secretariat. We build from published literature.
- A programme for young researchers the society can put in its calendar,
funded from the same figure.
How the figure is composed
There are two separate items, and they stay separate in the contract too.
Covering the costs
The machines that keep the service running, the infrastructure, the daily updating of the literature and the work of the processing itself. This is the item that keeps the service standing: there is no margin inside it.
The programme for the young
A share earmarked for outreach conferences for the society's younger researchers: organisation, venue, catering, and travel for those who would otherwise struggle to attend. They are the society's own events, under its name.
We are not a non-profit and we do not claim to be: White Sun SA is a Swiss company. What we do state is how the figure is made up, item by item, and that the second one goes entirely back to your youngest members.
The agreement is provisional, by choice
We are not proposing a long commitment, and it is not commercial caution: it is that neither side yet has the numbers to sign one.
- defined features: a closed list of what is included, not "the service";
- a defined number of researchers, written into the contract;
- a short duration, long enough to see whether it is really useful;
- if usage grows, the agreement is rewritten from scratch — it is not
quietly extended.
What it is not
It is not a subscription to an archive: we are not selling you access to a collection that already exists.
It is not a journal aggregator: we are not adding another source to consult.
It is not a service for the society, strictly speaking: it is a service for each individual member, which the society makes available. The pages are theirs, with their own access, and remain theirs even if one day they leave the society.
The first step
Half an hour, and we will show it to you live on a real case: it is the only way to grasp what this is, because described in words it seems far less than it is.
The contact for scientific societies is Federica: to discuss provision, write to her at federica@gamma97.com.