From: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:41:55 +0200
Dear arXiv-team,
you are doing a good job and you do it very efficently.
You are running a publication service for not more than 7 $ per
uploaded manuscript and a total of not more than 500000 $ p.a. will
make this service sustainable. (according to a pamphlet that I
collected yesterday at a German library conference)
On the other hand when I read from the SCOAP3-webpage:
http://www.scoap3.org/about.html
"the transition of HEP publishing to OA would amount to a maximum of
10 Million Euros/year,"
(and this for manuscipts, which are already on arXiv!)
I wonder, why the HEP-community does not engage themselves to upgrade
arXiv with workflow components for (hopefully OA- or public-) peer
reviewing, public discussion contributions to manuscripts, editorial
and classification/indexing process and eventually an overlay journal
creation function (for those, sticking to the branding issue of a
journal title), not to forget citation / bibliometric analysis (later)
and by this way creating "arXiv-plus" as an advanced physics article
publishing service (for less than a four digit $-fee per published
final article?).
May be, I missed a corresponding discussion?
Seems that the HEP-community is missing this opportunity. You may
give them advice. Or are the academic HEP-journal editors bound to
"their" publishing houses, for-profit ones as well as not-for-profit
ones? Opposition of the publishers would be vain if academic editors
and peer reviewers support arXiv in becoming a full service physics OA
publisher.
Best regards
Joachim Meier
P.S: I am not a member of the HEP-community and my employer is not too.
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From: David Ruddy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:56:10 +0000
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to share with you the good news that the Simons
Foundation will support arXiv's transition from an exclusive
initiative of Cornell University Library (CUL) to a collaboratively
governed, community-supported resource through a generous gift. The
press release about the funding is available at:
http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/120828/arXiv
We invite you to look at the FAQ that explains the new membership,
governance, and fiscal model:
http://arxiv.org/help/support/faq
Please share this update with your colleagues who might be interested
in the developments. If you have any questions or comments, we will
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Please register for these conference calls at:
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We appreciate your support and welcome your questions and suggestions.
The arXiv Team
Oya Y. Rieger, David Ruddy, Simeon Warner
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