September 17, 2013 Meeting Agenda

8am

Arrivals & continental breakfast

8:30-10:00am

Introductions and arXiv overview  (10 minutes each)

• SAB meeting goals (Ralf/David)
• arXiv program at CUL (Oya)
• Moderation (David)
• IT (Simeon)
• MAB (Catriona & Jim)
• Q&A

10am-noon

gen-ph moderation (includes a break)
other moderation issues?

LUNCH

scientific director: scientist/user representation in arXiv team

1-2pm

moderation tools & other IT issues

2-3pm

funding issues (society/pub, give button, revision of CY14,
reserve funds, etc.)

3-4:30pm

miscellaneous (integration of tools such as classification tool
& text overlap analysis to arXiv code, arXiv domain name, etc.

summary - next steps, conclusions, to-do-list 

8:00-8:30am

Arrivals & continental breakfast

8:30-10am

Introductions and arXiv overview (10 minute each)

• arXiv program at CUL (Oya)
• Moderation (David)
• IT (Simeon)
• SAB (Steve & David)
  

10am-11am

Financial overview

• CY revenue/expense reports
• reserve funds
• fund raising strategies
• need for additional staff lines
• priority setting

11am-noon

arXiv user study  (includes a 15-minute break)

• research questions
• methodology
• role of member libraries
• input from SAB

LUNCH

morning discussion continued

1-2pm

collaboration with society and publishers

2-3pm

arXiv and scholarly communication

• emerging open access mandates & arXiv's core mission
• R&D agenda for arXiv

3-4pm

conclusions and next steps