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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="FR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">CONTACT: </font></span></b><span lang="FR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> LESLIE
SCHALER, COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR, (413) 545-0162</font></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="FR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">UMASS
AMHERST LIBRARIES LEND SUPPORT TO arXiv</font></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span lang="FR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Amherst,
MA – </font></span></b><span lang="FR"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The<b> </b></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">University of
Massachusetts ranks 159th among the top 200 users of arXiv. Pronounced
“archive,” arXiv is a highly automated electronic archive and
distribution server that provides open access to over 630,000 electronic
preprints of scientific papers in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer
science, quantitative biology, and quantitative finance and statistics.
Initiated and managed<i> </i>by scientists, for scientists, arXiv has set and
maintained a new standard for innovative, open access scholarly communications
and, by so doing, effectively challenged the publishing environment’s
status quo for nearly 20 years. </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">This fall, the UMass
Amherst Libraries contributed $2,880 for the ongoing support of arXiv to help
ensure that it remains a viable distribution service for the millions of
scholars who depend on it. </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">When
arXiv moved to Cornell University from the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Research Library in 2001, the Cornell University Library provided the bulk of
arXiv’s $400,000 annual operating budget. As with most academic
libraries, Cornell University Library is facing significant budget cuts and is
looking for ways to share the cost of this community resource. Since the
top 200 heaviest user institutions account for about 75% of institutionally
identifiable downloads, Cornell is asking for voluntary support in the form of
an optional fee based on annual use.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">UMass
Amherst Libraries is participating in this voluntary program to support this
valuable resource that is heavily used by UMass Amherst faculty, researchers,
and students. In this way, UMass Amherst Libraries is supporting the
important concept of open access to scholarly information and helping to assure
that all submitters and users continue to have free access to arXiv.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> For
more information, contact Scott Stangroom (<a href="mailto:stangroom@library.umass.edu" target="_blank">stangroom@library.umass.edu</a>,
413-545-6724) or visit: <a href="http://arxiv.org/" target="_blank">http://arxiv.org/</a> or <a href="http://arxiv.org/help/support/faq" target="_blank">http://arxiv.org/help/support/faq</a>.
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Schaler </font></p>
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Program Coordinator<br>
Development and Communication Department <br>
W.E.B. Du Bois Library <br>
154 Hicks Way <br>
University of Massachusetts <br>
Amherst, MA 01003 <br>
(413) 545-0162 <br>
<a href="mailto:lschaler@library.umass.edu" target="_blank">lschaler@library.umass.edu</a> </font></p>
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