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8:15-8:30 am

Arrivals & continental breakfast

8:30-10 am

Introductions and arXiv overview (10 minute each topic and Q&A)           

  • Meeting goals - review of last year's meeting outcomes (Oya Y. Rieger)
  • arXiv Program at CUL (Oya Y. Rieger & Chris Myers)
  • Membership Update (Jaron Porciello)
  • Moderation (David Ruddy)
  • IT (Simeon Warner)
  • SAB update (Dave Morrison/Steven Gottlieb) 
  • Background documentsSAB Meeting Agenda: Add link

10am-11:30am

Business overview

  • Budget review and projections (CY14 r& CY15)
  • 'Give button' pilot as a fund raising strategy
  • Strategies for reaching out to research councils for contributions
  • Beyond 2013-2017 business plan - preliminary ideas
  • Background Documents
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CY14 budget (with mid-year adjustment)
CY15 - projected budget
(includes a 10-minute break)

11:30am-noon

arXiv users and current/emerging needs

Informal & brief presentation by MAB members about what they are hearing from their
local users about arXiv

LUNCH

Working lunch  - morning discussion continued

(includes a 15-minute break)

1-2pm

arXiv and scholarly communication: Needs assessment and priority setting

  • Interoperability of arXiv and Institutional Repositories
  • Emerging open access mandates from funders & compliance issues (e.g., plans for integration of standardized metadata by use of ID like ORCID, Grant-IDs, or Institutional IDs)
  • Updates on related initiatives vis-à-vis arXiv: SCOAP3, Orcid, SHARE, CHORUS, Epi Science, etc.
  • Linking to research data

2-3pm

Future strategies and directions

  • New subjects and fields on arXiv - disciplines and different publishing habits
  • arXiv's interface and the technical development of arXiv - assessment of outsourcing development
  • Collaboration with other related initiatives - ADS, Inspire - (include this topic if we have anything new to report or any issues that need input from MAB)

3-3:30pm

Conclusions

  • Review of the meeting outcomes
  • Communication strategies -- with MAB and other key stakeholders
  • Any feedback, questions, recommendations for arXiv team

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