@PaulHoule, The fact that arXiv.org has had difficulties in becoming financially sustainable is irrelevant, because it represents only one of many possible mod

@PaulHoule, The fact that arXiv.org has had difficulties in becoming financially sustainable is irrelevant, because it represents only one of many possible models for providing open access to academic research. Your comment reminds me a bit of all those industry experts who for years kept saying that tablet computing had no future, based on the embarrassing failure of Apple's Newton in 1993 and Microsoft's unsuccessful Tablet PC initiative in 2000. They were right until they weren't.