arXiv.org help - arXiv Business Planning Update

"It has been 15 months since we announced the collaborative arXiv business model. As we reported in our previous update, for 2010 we were pleased to receive support from 123 institutions, totaling to $360,000 in contributions and representing 11 countries. We are encouraged with the contributions for 2011 as we already have support from 101 institutions, totaling to $275,000 in pledges from 8 countries....We are currently contacting additional international library consortia for their possible leadership in coordinating support within some other countries. One of the outcomes of our sustainability initiative will be the development of a new arXiv governance structure....[W]e decided to implement Invenio as the basis of a new display and access system. The move to Invenio will facilitate improved collaboration with our partners at NASA ADS and INSPIRE, and reduce the maintenance burden of in-house code.... As part of the migration to Invenio, we will undertake some metadata remediation to improve the authorship data for existing submissions. This will enable better author linking, allow improvements in ownership claiming, and pave the way to support author identity linking using the proposed ORCID author identifiers. In collaboration with the NSF Data Conservancy project we have launched a pilot data upload interface for data associated with arXiv articles. Submission is unified through small extensions to arXiv's submission interface. While the article is announced and stored on arXiv, data is automatically deposited in the Data Conservancy repository and linked from the article....This is a pilot project, which will be re-evaluated in collaboration with the Data Conservancy by the end of this year. As a part of our initiative, we are making an effort to closely monitor and document expenses associated with running arXiv...."