ArXiv Hits 1M Submissions

Until they get rid of that annoying endorsement system, I submit to SSRN. The endorsement system is a major hurdle for unaffiliated publishers and it still doesn&#x27;t keep nonsense and wrong stuff from occasionally appearing on the site. The traditional peer review process is very time consuming and difficult, and I think it&#x27;s time to replace it with an open review or some more democratic form of review. The future of academic publishing could be journals being replaced by Wikis that allow researchers to continuously update stuff in real time, making the results available to public free of charge like this example of page that been updated since 2012 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Stockequation/sandbox" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;User:Stockequation&#x2F;sandbox</a><p>If somethings sounds promising and or passes the smell test, researchers may try to verify the results independently , with or without peer review

I wonder if there will (soon) be a service such as the original arXiv but for the masses. By that I mean an eprint repository without any sort of peer review or endorsement, while making complete removal or withdrawal purposely impossible, which seems to be a feature unique to arXiv [1]. It looks like viXra does away with the endorsement requirement, but it does allow complete removal [2].<p>For archival purposes the policy that forbids withdrawal seems to outweigh any other considerations. (I&#x27;m sure arXiv has made some exceptions during all this years, for instance if the content is shown to come from a different source.)<p>[1] <a href="http://arxiv.org/help/withdraw" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;arxiv.org&#x2F;help&#x2F;withdraw</a><p>[2] <i>You can remove old versions if you wish using the removal form, but remember that one purpose of viXra is to record the priority of your discoveries.</i> <a href="http://vixra.org/faq" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;vixra.org&#x2F;faq</a>

Good news are hard to come by. When seminal papers will get there first, things will be well on their way!

This is really great news. I hope that the Open Access movement will continue to grow, so that one day, the science community gets rid of all those toxic restrictions imposed by the current big publishers.

Satisfied to contribute towards it - I try to upload a copy of all my papers there before it gets published.

The arXiv.org link towards the bottom of the article points to [1] :-)<p>[1] file:&#x2F;&#x2F;&#x2F;C:&#x2F;%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Coyarie%5CLocal%20Settings%5CTemp%5CarXiv.org<p>Proof: <a href="http://imgur.com/p2Qk6gy" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;p2Qk6gy</a>