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- High-Contributing Organizations: Four voting members representing each consortia or national organization member that contributes 5% or more of arXiv's annual income. The MAB Bylaws specify up to five voting members from this category and currently there are four eligible groups, including:
- Consortium arXiv-DH and HGF, coordinated by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
- and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY. Germany
- Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK;
- University of California (CDL), US;
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), US.
- Simons Foundation: One voting member from the Simons Foundation.
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- Nominations may be submitted October 15-November 9, 2012
- Election will take place November 2027-December 1017, 2012
- Results will be announced by December 21, 2012the first week of January, 2013
- New Member Advisory Board will begin its work in February, 2013
Information About Nominations
Please complete the Nomination Form (URL) by November 9, 2012.
- Members will be elected from the candidates recommended by the Contributing Organizations. No contributing organization may be represented by more than one candidate for election to the Board.
- Each nominated candidate must be an employee or officer of the arXiv member organization that makes the nomination. Please confirm that your nominee has agreed to be included in the election ballot.
- Elected members of MAB will serve staggered four-year terms (six four-year and six two-year appointments, the term decision to be made after the elections).
- There will be an Annual Meeting of the Board (ideally full-day and in-person) supplemented with regular update conference calls as required (maximum two hour in duration).
- For board members who need assistance with their travel expenses to attend the in-person meetings, Cornell will provide $1,000 per person for the U.S. participants and $1,500 for the oversees participants.
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The Elections Committee will prepare a ballot using the candidate information provided by the nominating Contributing Organizations. The information about the online ballot will be shared with the Contributing Organizations during the third week of November and the voting process will take place November 2027-December 1017, 2012.
- Voting for representatives to MAB is open to all eligible Contributing Institutions, each of which shall have one vote.
- Each voting member of MAB will be an employee or officer of a Contributing Organization.
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