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A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04327 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04327) rather than direct
by Sniffnoy 10y ago
A note -- if you're linking to arXiv, it's better to link to the abstract (https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04327 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04327) rather than directly to the PDF. From the abstract, one can easily click through to the PDF; not so the reverse. And the abstract allows one to do things like see different versions of the paper, search for other things by the same authors, etc. Thank you!
- lisper 10y agoYou can also see when the paper was submitted.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoOh I find it so aggravating when I don't have a date. It seems like most academic papers I found on interesting security and programming stuff didn't have dates. I had to pull them off Citeseerx or the school's site. You'd think it would be a requirement in the style guides given importance of when something was published for relevance or context. I've never heard an explanation for why this isn't so. I do appreciate the authors that put one on there, though. Saves much Googling. :)
- tikhonj 10y agoConference papers include a copyright notice with the name (and year) of the conference. Papers that aren't published at conferences (preprints, technical reports... etc) don't have any standard format for this. Sometimes (especially for preprints) it's left out in expectation of adding the copyright notice in a future version, sometimes it's left out because the document is in a very preliminary stage and hasn't been officially published and sometimes it's left out because people just didn't think of it and there's no standard format that includes a date for things that aren't published to a specific venue.
- lisper 10y agoYou don't need a standard format. You just need to put "DRAFT - [today's date]" somewhere in the document.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoIm not saying it has to be done a certain way. Im saying my college required the paper to have margins, a title, etc. Im surprised most of them dont require a date of any kind on the document sonewhere. They could write the year in Size 8 in upper-right corner in light grey and that would be better than many in my collection. ;)
- qwerty1793 10y agoThe first four digits of arXiv papers links are the year and month of submission (to the arXiv). Just from this link I can tell that this was submitted in September 2016.
- boxfire 10y agoThis is a new result published yesterday, with no revisions. A direct link is extremely preferable to those of us who are interested in actually reading the paper. If you are doing homework, you can search the paper title.
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- ramblenode 10y agoFor those who don't have a PDF viewer in their browser it's also quite annoying to have to download the paper just to see what it's about.
- colejohnson66 10y agoWhat modern browsers don't support PDF? (besides lynx)