Cornell University Library (CUL) holds the overall administrative and financial responsibility for arXiv's operation and development, with guidance from its Member Advisory Board (MAB) and its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Based on the arXiv's operating principles, MAB represents participating 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. The MAB bylaws detail the goals, composition, operation, and election of the Board.
Composition of MAB
MAB has eighteen will have 13 voting members in four three categories:
1. Contributing Organizations
Eight voting members from 72 Contributing Organizations, elected through an election process.
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Eva Isaksson works as a physics librarian at University of Helsinki Library, with a focus in bibliometrics and quality control of the physics publications entered in the University of Helsinki research database. She worked at the Helsinki Observatory 1981-2009 as an astronomy librarian, has been active with several LISA (Library and Information Services in Astronomy) conferences and is an editor of LISA V and LISA VII proceedings volumes. She has studied theoretical physics and done research in the history of theories of gravitation prior to entering a career in librarianship. She is also author of books on women scientists and the social responsibility of scientific research.
2. 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 (representing 61 organizations).
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MacKenzie Smith has been the University Librarian at UC Davis since June, 2012. Smith has been an academic research librarian since 1985, specializing in information technology and digital knowledge management. She attended the University of Washington before moving to the Midwest to attend graduate school at the University of Chicago. She spent the following decades on the East Coast, at the libraries of Harvard University and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She led cutting-edge research projects in digital libraries and archives; Web applications for online scholarly communication; and digital data curation in support of e-science. She also led the development of the DSpace open source software platform for digital archives. As a research fellow for the Creative Commons organization, she has worked extensively on intellectual property policy for scientific research data and on advocacy for Open Access to scholarly journals and other research products.
3. Simons Foundation
One voting member from the Simons Foundation.
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