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The current 5-year business plan represents a baseline maintenance scenario. It was developed based on an analysis of the arXiv's baseline expenses during 2010-2012. It does not factor in any new functionality requirements or other unforeseen resource needs.  Although a development reserve was established to fund such  expenses, it is not sufficient to subsidize significant development efforts in a sustainable waythrough surplus funds.  Stewardship of resources such as arXiv involves not only covering the operational costs but also continuing to enhance their value based on the needs of the user community and the evolving patterns and modes of scholarly communication. With help from our membership community, Cornell needs We need to pursue grants and engage in collaborations to secure funds that will support research and development work such as the ones described below.If we were to seek funding for expanding arXiv's features to support OA mandates & IR-arXiv interoperability, we may be able to group the metadata overhaul, assigning DOIs for data, and CULAR work.the following goals:

Interoperability & Public Access Mandate Support  

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