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. ____________________________________________________ Dr.-Ing. Joachim E. Meier Head of Library Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) (http://www.ptb.de) PF 3345 Tel. +49-531-592-8131 38023 Braunschweig Fax. +49-531-592-8137 GERMANY E-mail: [log in to unmask] ____________________________________________________ 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 hold three conference calls to accommodate time zone differences and invite you to join one: September 14, Friday, noon-1pm EDT September 17, Monday, 4pm-5pm EDT September 18, Tuesday, 6am-7am EDT Please register for these conference calls at: https://cornell.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_eyqgXKpmbLOfOUB We appreciate your support and welcome your questions and suggestions. The arXiv Team Oya Y. Rieger, David Ruddy, Simeon Warner