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arXiv is great, but represents a very small fraction of the total published work, is extremely field specific, and old papers are still very relevant. I find m
by Obi_Juan_Kenobi 11y ago
arXiv is great, but represents a very small fraction of the total published work, is extremely field specific, and old papers are still very relevant. I find myself regularly relying upon citations from as early as the 1910's.
It's not even close to an alternative.
- tjl 11y agoFor my PhD thesis I used some papers from the 1800s along with many from the 1900s to 1950s because those were when the foundation papers were published in one area I was working in.