In principle, by offering limited space for paid advertisements, The Research Cooperative can earn income to help cover costs. Our specialised but global audience may be valuable for research-related organisations, businesses, and publishers.

We will only accept advertisements and links that are potentially relevant for many of our members, and that do not promote products or services that might seriously annoy or offend many.

For companies that also target a similar audience of researchers, graduate students, editors, translators, illustrators, IT specialists and publishers, our website can be useful for link placements designed to raise visibility for search engines. Link placements can bring relevant viewers to other websites, since we only accept links that are of potential interest for our members.

In 2011, we received our first and so far only unsolicited request for placement of a paid link, as recorded below. See also: 'Who is paying for the network?'.

Advertising revenue report

Link to webhostinggeeks.com website:

Start date: Dec. 2011

Period: 12 months

Price paid: $80, net $76.58

This amount is enough to cover about two months of hosting with our Internet hosting company.

Note: dollar amounts on this page refer to US dollars, unless otherwise stated.