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Arxiv, and it's various follow-ons - I think I was one of the first submissions to medRxiv, are excellent as far as they go, but if we take the COVID-19 pandemi
by Fomite 4y ago
Arxiv, and it's various follow-ons - I think I was one of the first submissions to medRxiv, are excellent as far as they go, but if we take the COVID-19 pandemic as a stress test, they still have a long way to go.
Beyond that, their curation is...lackluster at best, even if we're not talking about gatekeeping, filtering, etc. but just "What if I want to do something other than key word search?"
I find unexpectedly interesting articles all the time reading journals. I have yet to do so for a preprint server unless someone sends it my way, or it ends up on my Twitter feed.
- theaeolist 4y agoJournals can still do curation of the stuff that's on preprint archives. Some already do. It's a lot less friction than the current model.
- impendia 4y ago> I find unexpectedly interesting articles all the time reading journals. Interesting. In math, I don't think anyone "reads journals", but lots of people check the arXiv frequently to see what has been posted.
- Fomite 4y agoMath is probably the furthest along this particular pathway - which is both a good sign for this being able to work, and also not generalizable.