An Update on Taking Up a Collection for arXiv - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

"In January, Cornell University announced that it would be passing the hat for arXiv, the widely used online repository that houses e-prints of journal articles in physics, quantitative biology, mathematics, computer science, and related fields. The repository has long been housed at Cornell but had gotten too expensive to maintain alone, the university said. So Cornell asked other institutions, especially whose researchers who are heavy arXiv users, to pitch in....The Chronicle wondered how the collection was progressing and got in touch with Anne R. Kenney, the university librarian at Cornell, to find out. “This is actually going pretty well,” she said. “I feel energized by what we’ve been able to do.” Cornell has secured pledges from 85 institutions for a total of more than $300,000...."