{"id":5087,"date":"2012-08-28T21:19:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T01:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2018-02-04T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T20:49:07","slug":"simons-foundation-and-the-arxiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5087","title":{"rendered":"Simons Foundation and the arXiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the <a href=\"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=6449\">Quantum Pontiff<\/a>, news that the Simons Foundation will be providing up to \\$300,000 in financial support to the arXiv for each of the next five year.  Last year, the arXiv <a href=\"http:\/\/news.library.cornell.edu\/news\/111025\/arXiv_governance\">announced<\/a> a \\$60K planning grant from Simons.  Now the Foundation is stepping in with a much bigger contributions, for details see <a href=\"http:\/\/news.library.cornell.edu\/news\/120828\/arXiv\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of support for open-access publication is an excellent way for Simons to use its resources.  Perhaps this will be the beginning of a larger effort to buy back control of the math and physics literature from commercial publishers and set up a viable model for making this literature available to all going forward.  This may be an expensive undertaking, but Simons (and other math\/physics-friendly financiers) have resources on the scale necessary to do this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the Quantum Pontiff, news that the Simons Foundation will be providing up to \\$300,000 in financial support to the arXiv for each of the next five year. Last year, the arXiv announced a \\$60K planning grant from Simons. Now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=5087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10048,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions\/10048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}