Published in Physics World, 26 Jan 2010
Librarians at Cornell University want more external funding to support their popular arXiv preprint server because the running costs are now “beyond a single institution’s resources”.
arXiv has become the most widely used preprint server among academics in the physical sciences. It received more than 60,000 new submissions in 2009, has about 400,000 registered users and provides 2.5 million article downloads per month. Its rate of expansion is so rapid that staff expect its budget – which covers personnel as well as operating expenses – to increase from $400,000 in 2010 to $500,000 in 2012. Most of the top 25 institutional users have already made financial commitments, but to meet the budget demands Cornell Library would like several hundred others to pledge support too. […]
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