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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 documents - SAB Meeting Agenda: Add link

10am-11:15am

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
  arXiv Financial Projections for 2013-2017
  CY14 budget (with mid-year adjustment)
  CY15 - projected budget
  (includes a 10-minute break)

11:15am-noon

arXiv users and current/emerging needs

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

--Is arXiv meeting scientists' needs? Both as readers and submitters of papers. Any features that arXiv is not providing and needed by scientists (research data support, social networking tools, better interoperability with other related system, etc.)? Are there any other online databases or repositories that scientists prefer to arXiv?

--What do you see as graduate students' up-and-coming needs? How do

they differ from the current generation of scientists? What do we need to do to continue to meet current and emerging needs?

-- Opinions on arXiv's quality parameters. Our goal is to ensure that

articles are of interest, relevance, and value to the disciplines in

which they are listed. Submissions are reviewed by expert moderators to

verify that they are topical and refereeable scientific contributions

that follow accepted standards of scholarly communication. Submissions

may be rejected or reclassified based on moderator input. Does arXiv

strike the right balance between quality and openness? Are article

classifications appropriate and useful?

--Any 'stories' you hear about how arXiv is affecting their research or communication.

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