Data integrity checks are performed automatically without the need for adminstrator intervention. These checks can greatly reduce the workload of the site administrator. Authors can have associated metadata. Again, the site administrator can decide what metadata fields will be stored with each author's record. Users can subscribe either as authors or readers, via a web form or an automatically processed e-mail account.
Users can subscribe to an e-mail service.
Each user specifies their preferred subject headings, and can then choose to be e-mailed with summaries of new submissions under each of those headings. Submitted papers are placed in a buffer, where they can be approved by a moderator, rejected outright, or returned to the author for amendment. In fact, once the site is up and running, it will require very little maintanence that cannot be performed using the WWW-based maintanence interface. A major objective in this work has been to make the system usable at the minimum possible expense. The only cost of running the archive need be the basic cost of the hardware.