https://ift.tt/eA8V8J It’s taken longer than we originally intended, but I am very happy to report that Advances in Combinatorics , a new arXiv overlay journal that is run along similar lines to Discrete Analysis , has just published its first five articles, with plenty more in the pipeline. I am excited by the business model of the journal, which is that its very small running costs (like Discrete Analysis, it uses the Scholastica platform , which charges $10 per submission, as well as a fixed annual charge of $250, and there are a few other costs such as archiving articles with CLOCKSS and having DOIs) are being met, for the next five years in the first instance, by the library Queens University in Kingston Ontario, who are also providing us with very useful administrative support. My dream would be for other libraries to have the foresight to support similar ventures, since the potential for savings if the stranglehold of the big commercial publishers is broken is huge. I do not ...