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MAB represents participating institutions' institutions’ interests and advises CUL on issues related to repository management and development, standards implementation, interoperability, development priorities, business planning, and outreach and advocacy. Representation on MAB is reserved for libraries, research institutions, laboratories, and foundations that are members of arXiv and that contribute to the financial support of the service.
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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 arXiv’s annual income. The MAB Bylaws specify up to five voting members from this category and currently there are four eligible groups (representing 61 organizations), including:
- Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), US
- Consortium arXiv-DH and HGF: Coordinated by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) and Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Germany
- Jisc, UK
- University of California, US
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- Ex Officio Members: MAB will have five non-voting ex officio members including the arXiv Program Director (MAB Chair), arXiv IT manager, and arXiv User Support manager, all from Cornell University Library, and two Scientific Board representatives.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The purpose of the current election process is to elect eight members for the Contributing Organizations category. The nomination and voting processes are open only to the Contributing Organizations.The MAB Bylaws specify up to five voting members from the High-Contributing Organizations category. As of October, 2012, there are only four eligible consortia for this group. Therefore, there will not be an election process for the High Contributing Organization seats as each eligible High Contributing Organization will be invited to appoint a representative to the Board. Please see the list of
High-Contributing and Contributing Organizations.
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