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costs associated with larger management overhead and less
development agility.
Significant steps have been made toward fairer and more
sustainable governance through greater liaison with the overall
arXiv advisory board and with the separate advisory committees
for each of the main subject areas. In particular, the separate
advisory committees are used to recruit moderators for each
subject area and the physics advisory committee has recently
reached consensus on reorganization of the physics subject
categories.
THE FUTURE ROLE OF ARXIV
Many authors have identified two roles fulfilled by scholarly
publication: one being to communicate information necessary for
continued research, and the other to provide certification necessary
for professional rewarding and advancement. The arXiv has
demonstrated a very efficient system for the former need, but has
not addressed the latter.
One can think of the largely automated distribution system
provided by arXiv as the "low hanging fruit" of the broader
scholarly communication problem. Even the submission system
for arXiv is extremely cheap, as most of the effort is offloaded to
the author. Administration effort is less than two minutes per
article on average (based on a single administrator being able to
deal with problems relating to 250 submissions in a single work
day, neglecting overhead of maintaining and developing the
system). However, even this amount of time adds up to one full-
time equivalent just for the daily administration.
Most of the expense of running arXiv is in handling new
submissions. This has two positive results. First, the cost of
maintaining the archive of old papers is negligible in the context of
running the whole service so there is no incentive to reduce access
or facilities for the archival collection. Second, if at some time
new submissions were no longer accepted, it would not be
expensive to maintain the archival collection alone.
Nascent institutional repositories may eventually replace arXiv.
The distributed model is appealing although experience suggests
that it is much more difficult to implement. In 1995 arXiv was
distributed over several sites each dealing with separate subject
areas but these were gradually brought back under central control
for management convenience and stability. It may be that an
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Halbert, Martin; Finegan, Carrie & Skinner, Katherine. Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings 2005, book, October 14, 2005; [Atlanta, Georgia]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97947/m1/70/?q=architectural+drawings: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .