Cornell University Library Engages More Institutions in Supporting arXiv
Collaborative Business Model Changes Funding Structure

ITHACA, N.Y. (Jan. 21, 2010) – In a move to expand support for sustaining arXiv, Cornell University Library is broadening the funding base for the online scientific repository. Nearly 600,000 e-prints – research articles published online in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science and related disciplines – now reside in arXiv, which is an open information source for hundreds of thousands of scientific researchers.

arXiv will remain free for readers and submitters, but the Library has established a voluntary, collaborative business model to engage institutions that benefit most from arXiv.

“Keeping an open-access resource like arXiv sustainable means not only covering its costs, but also continuing to enhance its value, and that kind of financial commitment is beyond a single institution’s resources,” said Oya Rieger, Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies. “If a case can be made for any repository being community-supported, arXiv has to be at the top of the list.”

Go to for more info:  http://news.library.cornell.edu/news/arxiv

For those who must stay up with ArXive, there is ArXiview, a new iPhone application billed as “a very easy way to surf the last few weeks of arXiv postings.”   Developed by Paul Gingsparg then of the Los Alamos Nattional Laboratory and now of Cornell University, arXiv.org provides “Open Access to 534,588 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.” [04-24-09].

ArXiview was designed by Dave Bacon, a theoretical physicist at the University of Washington, http://dabacon.org/arxiview/