Texas A&M University is one of the top 200 users of arXiv, an open access repository for more than 580,000 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics. The Texas A&M University Libraries, along with libraries at institutions including CERN, Columbia, Harvard, Los Alamos National Lab, Michigan, Oxford, and Princton, have pledged to assist Cornell University in maintaining the free availability of  research articles to researchers everywhere.  This support is a short-term funding model, as Cornell debates the best strategy for long-term viability of arXiv. It costs about $400,000 annually to maintain the repository service.

In addition to searching, downloading and reading papers from the site, Texas A&M faculty contribute pre-publication versions of research articles to arXiv.

The full text of Cornell’s press release follows. (more…)