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That's not the role of arxiv, and this problem is addressed much more easily with things like https://clockss.org/ https://clockss.org/ Edit - Clockss is a ba
by IanCal 3y ago
That's not the role of arxiv, and this problem is addressed much more easily with things like https://clockss.org/ https://clockss.org/
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Clockss is a backup of academic content, mirrored at 12 academic institutes around the world. It's built on existing tech and means that things like dois should still work (if I understand right, https://doi.org/10.4103/2315-7992.204679 https://doi.org/10.4103/2315-7992.204679) .
They currently backup over 50M articles.
- cs702 3y agoThat may or may not be an intended "role" of archive services like arXiv, but it's one more reason, on top of many other reasons, why such services are gradually, and in my view deservedly, becoming the dominant platforms for sharing and preserving new research. Regardless of how we may think archival is most "easily" addressed, note that arXiv alone is already ~50x bigger than clockss.
- IanCal 3y agoSharing sure, it's a preprint platform. But why is it better for archiving content than clockss? How is it guaranteeing versions? What's the doing resolution like? > note that arXiv alone is already ~50x bigger than clockss. I'm sorry what's your measure of that? Arxiv is about 2-3M iirc and clockss is 50M.