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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.15252/embj.201695531/f...
Here's a discussion on HN of a blog post by me sparked by a conversation with Ginsparg.
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Not always.
Can you link three examples.
I believe the PDF link is only removed after a paper has been withdrawn. But if you click on v1, you can still access the original paper (incorrect, in this case).
This article misses one of the biggest value-adds of arXiv, at least in my field (Statistics): since almost everyone posts to arXiv, you can almost always find a free version of a published and potentially pay-walled paper. In the past, publishing in a peer-reviewed journal would (1) improve the paper through peer review, (2) signal the quality of the paper based on the prestige of the journal, and (3) distribute the…
> you can almost always find a free version of a published and potentially pay-walled paper. On personal research, I've used it for exactly this, but since what I've seen was only preprints, I've often wondered about the final version. It looks like I'm not alone.[1] Do many or any of the arXiv papers get updates with the improvements that come from peer reviews? Is there a need for arXiv for finals or do publishers…
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It is pronounced like it's spelled; the X is a chi.
Is it spelt that way, though? X is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X Χ is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI Everywhere I have ever seen it spelt, it has been written with the Latin letter. I have never seen it spelt as "arχiv" or "arΧiv", only ever as "arXiv". I can understand why, for example, having a Greek letter in the URL would be undesirable, but if one is going to consider that letter to be Chi, then that should be the authoritat…
Can I just make a general plea? You should upload your paper to arXiv. When you do, please upload your source (tex, or word I imagine), as well as a PDF. For the blind, PDF is the worst possible format, and tex and word are the best formats. Don't hide, or lose, the blind-accessible version of your paper.
I'm a (PhD student) mathematician and every paper I've uploaded has included the TeX. I looked at about 10 papers in math at random, and 9/10 of them also included the TeX. But this isn't something I've looked for in the past. So I wonder: in your experience, about what percentage of papers on the arXiv have included the source?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is pronounced like it's spelled; the X is a chi.
Is it spelt that way, though? X is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X Χ is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI Everywhere I have ever seen it spelt, it has been written with the Latin letter. I have never seen it spelt as "arχiv" or "arΧiv", only ever as "arXiv". I can understand why, for example, having a Greek letter in the URL would be undesirable, but if one is going to consider that letter to be Chi, then that should be the authoritat…
Can I just make a general plea? You should upload your paper to arXiv. When you do, please upload your source (tex, or word I imagine), as well as a PDF. For the blind, PDF is the worst possible format, and tex and word are the best formats. Don't hide, or lose, the blind-accessible version of your paper.
When I worked at the Cornell Theory Center in the late 90s, I didn't know about the arXiv, but I sure as hell knew about screen readers. One of the best FORTRAN programmers (numerical analysis/applied math research faculty I think) was blind as a bat. I learned a lot about not underestimating people there. It's a strange university but it always makes me happy to think that it (specifically Ginsparg, and to some degr…
I think advocates of sharing science should also understand that, at present, the majority of the content is asinine or incorrect. Removing checks and balances is not helping.
Can I just make a general plea? You should upload your paper to arXiv. When you do, please upload your source (tex, or word I imagine), as well as a PDF. For the blind, PDF is the worst possible format, and tex and word are the best formats. Don't hide, or lose, the blind-accessible version of your paper.
I'm a (PhD student) mathematician and every paper I've uploaded has included the TeX. I looked at about 10 papers in math at random, and 9/10 of them also included the TeX. But this isn't something I've looked for in the past. So I wonder: in your experience, about what percentage of papers on the arXiv have included the source?
I hope it is replaced with something better soon. You cannot see access statistics concerning the papers you upload, and they provide this absurd reason for not doing it: https://arxiv.org/help/faq/statfaq (it seems they think arxiv users are idiots or something, so they have to take care of us). Also getting the uploaded latex files to be compiled without errors is a pain, and they don't let you to just upload the p…
Not providing raw download counts seems like a good thing; it's strongly privacy preserving. On the other hand, perhaps a way for registered users to star papers that they like (similar to how Github lets you star projects) might be a good thing. It serves much the same purpose as a rough measure of popularity, but is entirely voluntary.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is pronounced like it's spelled; the X is a chi.
Is it spelt that way, though? X is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X Χ is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI Everywhere I have ever seen it spelt, it has been written with the Latin letter. I have never seen it spelt as "arχiv" or "arΧiv", only ever as "arXiv". I can understand why, for example, having a Greek letter in the URL would be undesirable, but if one is going to consider that letter to be Chi, then that should be the authoritat…