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arXiv has started 2015 with an important milestone as we added the one-millionth paper (ADD URL TO PRESS RELEASE IF READY OR THE VIDEO CLIP) at the end of December’14. Since its inception in 1991 with a focus on the high energy physics community, arXiv has significantly expanded both its subject coverage and user base. During 2014, the repository saw 90,000 new submissions and close to 81 million downloads from all over the world. arXiv continues to be has international in scope, with mirror sites in seven countries submissions and readership from around the world, and collaborations with U.S. and foreign professional societies and other international organizations.
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- Recruited over 12 new physics moderators. arXiv is a moderated scholarly communication forum informed and guided by scientists and the scientific cultures it serves. Almost 150 expert moderators review submissions to verify that they are topical and of interest to the scientific community, follow accepted standards of scholarly communication, and are classified in the appropriate subject categories.
- Worked with Physics Advisory Committee to implement an effective moderation process for the General Physics category and recruited a Gen-ph moderator as this category requires a more extended and experienced review.
- Started working with various stakeholders to define the role of the Scientific Director with respect to daily moderation processes and workflows.
Technical Features and Infrastructure
- Started improving tools and interfaces to allow moderators to interact more directly and efficiently with the arXiv system and administrators based on input from the Scientific Advisory Board and moderators (to be continued in 2015).
- Made several improvements such as expanding the arXiv ID to be prepare for 10,000 submissions/month milestone and adding automatic classification checks to submission system (integrated with moderator alerting).
- Created a summary documentation the arXiv codebase arrangement, technologies, and areas of personnel expertiseFurther improved security by implementing Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) for all login and account interactions and initiated the implementation of strategies to protect submitters’ email addresses from being harvested.
- Started integrating an automatic overlap detection application developed by Paul Gingparg to comparing new submissions with existing corpus and generate notifications for administrators and moderators.
Governance, Communication, & Organizational Model
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