From: Subbiah Arunachalam <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 17:57:45 -0700
Joachim Meier's suggestion is indeed great and worth pursuing. We
should mobilize the support of not only high energy physicists and
scientists in other specialties covered by arXiv (such as condensed
matter physics) to support this proposal.
Subbiah Arunachalam
[Not a physicist either. I am part of an Indian think tank called the
Centre for Internet and Society where we look at the
technology-society interface]
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 1:50 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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>
> http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/120828/arXiv
>
> We invite you to look at the FAQ that explains the new membership,
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>
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>
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