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3) Discussion of the idea of forming MAB subgroups with the following themes (15 minutes):
- Member Relations - sample topics include --> special services for membership (such as providing additional statistics to member institutions), strategies for promoting libraries/research laboratories role in arXiv sustainability to scientists
- Financial Planning - sample topics include --> raising additional funds in order to lower the current tier structure or support R&D projects, creating a lower-priced tier for members from developing countries, guidelines for using reserve funds, communication with members and scientists about arXiv, assessment of the current financial model
- Collaboration with Publishers and Societies --> please see the September 2011 planning meeting summaryabout the outcomes of a collaboration discussion with a group of publisher and society representatives - we would like to move our initial meeting recommendations to
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- action
- Research and Development Agenda --> moving beyond the current sustainability model that focuses on operations to a strategic plan for arXiv's further development and innovation, setting R&D priorities, assessing collaboration opportunities
4) Questions & suggestions
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In 2011, in collaboration with the NSF Data Conservancy project (http://dataconservancy.org/
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We'll use the EZID system from the CDL (http://www.cdlib.org/services/uc3/ezid/). Jim Mullins mentioned that Purdue is a provider of DOI's through the CDL program too. program. Jim is interested in participating in the research data support issues identified in the arXiv road map.
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In celebration of the arXiv's 20th anniversary, on September 23, 2011 Cornell University Library (CUL) hosted a meeting at Cornell with the representatives from several publishers and societies that are interested in Cornell's sustainability planning efforts. There is a report that provides a synopsis of the discussion and recommends next steps for continuing this dialogue (http://www.miniurl.com/s/7p8). Since the meeting, the Cornell team had a couple of exchanges but we decided to wait and form a small working group with representation from MAB and SAB before continuing our work. One of the proposed sub-groups focuses on this work.
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ORCID is a community-based effort to provide a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers (http://about.orcid.org/). arXiv is very interested in this work. Simeon Warner is a member of the initiative's board of directors.
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The annual arXiv roadmap will be an important blueprint. We worked on the first one and it is available at https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/culpublic/2013+arXiv+Roadmap. We also need to think 3-5 years out and will engage both SAB and MAB in helping us set priorities.
Is the SAB responsible for technological oversight of arXiv?
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