> (“xxx” didn’t have the explicit connotations it does today, Ginsparg emphasized).<p>In the 90s? That is so not true me think Paul is willfully being forgetful.
The article has a melancholic tone running through it, felt especially keenly when you consider it a microcosm of the much wider struggles of maintaining a public good: sustaining it while keeping its integrity.<p>When your service is small or not easily visible - while still doing significant good - it's hard to find enough people willing to spend their time and resources helping you sustain it.<p>When your service becomes big enough to be noticeable - which is the arXiv is in by now - it also becomes attractive to the people looking to subvert it to be something else, to enshittify it, and so the limiting factor in getting help becomes the risk to its integrity.
> For scientists, imagining a world without arXiv is like the rest of us imagining one without public libraries<p>Are there scientists that don't know libgen or scihub?
Re article<p>"In 2021, the journal Nature declared arXiv one of the “10 computer codes that transformed science,” praising its role in fostering scientific collaboration. (The article is behind a paywall—unlock it for $199 a year.)"<p>Burned!<p>Re ArXiv<p>I read in their licensing that some papers are licensed for non-commercial use. Does anyone know an easy way to tell which are licensed that way?<p>I normally see the main, ArXiv page for a specific paper. Is there something on the page for licensing that I overlooked?
ArXiv: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArXiv</a><p>ArXiv accepts .ps (PostScript), .tex (LaTeX source), and .pdf (PDF) ScholarlyArticle uploads.<p>ArXiv docs > Formats for text of submission:
<a href="https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html#formats-for-text-of-submission" rel="nofollow">https://info.arxiv.org/help/submit/index.html#formats-for-te...</a><p>The internet and the web are the most transformative platforms in all of science, though.
arXiv has one of my papers on hold for a long time because their team couldn't believe I—someone without a CS degree—was able to create a programming language from scratch on my own.