Comments on: arxiv.org Joins the Blogosphere!

By: Endless Hybrids » Blog Archive » Research tools enter the blogosphere

Endless Hybrids » Blog Archive » Research tools enter the blogosphere — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 20:24:52 +0000

[...] It’s exciting to see that arxiv.org has joined the blogosphere. There are some interesting comments there about the use of trackbacks on arxiv.org. Here’s another good posting on the blog as a sharp tool for research; again, this one has a lot of interesting comments. Jacques provides background and further discussion of trackbacks within arxiv. Leave a Comment [...]

By: Einstein vs. Physical Review | Cosmic Variance

Einstein vs. Physical Review | Cosmic Variance — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:38:20 +0000

[...] Despite the fact that the arxiv has made it possible to disseminate papers well before they are sent to a journal, the process of anonymous peer review is still crucial to physics and the rest of science. Anyone who has at least a couple of published papers has appeared on the radar screen of various journals as a potential referee, and pretty soon the requests to review papers come fast and furious. And it’s not a matter of rubber-stamping; I’ve personally refereed about 100 papers, and recommended less than half of them for publication. Of course, individual referees can behave quite differently; editors like referees who will actually read the paper, are willing to reject it if it’s bad, and get the reviews back quickly. I used to be good at all three of those, although my record on the last point has deteriorated seriously of late. [...]

By: LogBlog

LogBlog — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:59:24 +0000

arXiv math.LO RSS feed and trackbacks

As reported on CT and Cosmic Variance, the preprint archive arXiv has now track-back enabled their entries. This means that if you discuss a paper available on arXiv in your blog and send a trackback ping, the arXiv page of the paper will link back t…

By: Alejandro Rivero

Alejandro Rivero — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:35:43 +0000

Is it working? I send POSTs to the given address and the status is 200 OK, but nothing happens.

By: Daniel Lemire’s blog » Journals are already dead! Long live eprint servers!

Sat, 27 Aug 2005 04:37:34 +0000

[...] On this topic, Suresh cites Cosmic Variance: Most people these days post to the arxiv before they even send their paper to a journal, and some have stopped submitting to journals altogether. (I wish they all would, it would cut down on that annoying refereeing we all have to do.) And nobody actually reads the journals they serve exclusively as ways to verify that your work has passed peer review. [...]

By: Adventures in Ethics and Science

Adventures in Ethics and Science — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:42:08 +0000

Science blogs for intra-scientific community communication.

More recently, Sean Carroll, also blogging at Cosmic Variance, noted that arxiv, the electronic preprint repository for physicists, has joined the blogosphere by introducing trackbacks on abstracts in the arxiv.

By: Library clips :: arxiv: e-print trackbacks :: August :: 2005

Library clips :: arxiv: e-print trackbacks :: August :: 2005 — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:03:12 +0000

[...] Links: Blogging arxiv arxiv.org Joins the Blogosphere! Trackbacks and the ArXivs Comments » [...]

By: The Ten Thousand Year Blog » Blog Archive » arxiv.org Joins the Blogosphere!

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 04:00:38 +0000

[...] The arXiv.org e-Print archive network used by scientists (physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, quantitative biologists) is now utilizing some of the tools popularized by the blogging community. Details and comments on the Cosmic Variance and the Crooked Timber blogs. [...]

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:42:39 +0000

I can see a future in which this thing replaces conferences. You have a blog at which certain invited people put up a presentation, in the form of an arxiv submission. Other people apply to the conference blog for the right to make comments via trackback. Everyone can read, but only the people invited can present, and only those whose applications to comment are accepted can do so. Now *that* would be cool! No more tiresome time-wasting travel, no more “I only want to talk to my friends”; eventually, in a really Utopian future, people might end up being judged by the quality of their work and not by their networking skills or by those of their thesis advisor. Let it happen, and soon!

By: WL

WL — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:21:26 +0000

Well, I did suggest something to Paul a good while ago, here’s his answer

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 14:10:20 -0700
From: Paul Ginsparg 505-667-7353
To: lerche@nxth01.cern.ch (Wolfgang Lerche)
Subject: Re: mail to cern

i know nothing of www (what is it? , every other week someone tells me
about some new wonderful network that i’ve never heard of but that will
be the solution to everything: wais, gophernet, …)

By: semantics etc.

semantics etc. — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:27:22 +0000

Webifying Research

As reported here, here, here, here, and here, the giant open research archive arxiv.org for physics, math, and computer science now supports not just RSS feeds for newly added papers but also trackbacks, which means that if someone posts comments…

By: Alejandro Rivero

Alejandro Rivero — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:06:05 +0000

Well, I did not suggested anything to Ginsparg, except that I raised a conflict due to the use of email pestering in Physics Comments. I will see if I get a bit of time to update my service up to the new standards… or perhaps I could even come to discontinue it, if blogging starts to be habitual.

By the way, ten years ago I invented trackbacks. Well, sort of. It was an script to catch backlinks on fly from referrer pages, with CERN httpd.

By: e pur si muove » Blog Archive »

e pur si muove » Blog Archive » — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:39:22 +0000

[...] Big news in the scientific blogging community: arXiv.org, arguably the world’s largest preprint repository, now supports trackbacks. Jacques Distler has some news on how it happened. « Peter Woit [...]

By: ricoblog

ricoblog — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:10:35 +0000

Academic Journals and Blogging

By: Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » arXiv Trackbacks

Not Even Wrong » Blog Archive » arXiv Trackbacks — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 03:24:44 +0000

[...] As discussed here, here and here, the arXiv is now putting on each abstract page a link to trackbacks from weblogs which contain a link to the paper in question. This is an interesting mechanism for integrating the discussion of various papers on weblogs with the arXiv site. [...]

By: Walt Pohl

Walt Pohl — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:42:19 +0000

&y: Close. The “x” is the Greek chi, not Russian. So you’re supposed to read it like the English word “archive”.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:22:26 +0000

Ah, thanks Jacques for the info.

I am now actually going to put aside my How to Blog for Dummies book and get back to work.

By: Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:40:43 +0000

Hmmm. Well, since the cat is out of the bag …

You can read my post on a bit of the history of this development.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:17:03 +0000

Interesting. Should I start my own blog and spam my own research papers now?

ideally blogs should become research tools, but like Risa, I worry about noise. It takes at least some modicum of determination to put a crackpot paper on the arxiv (at the least, you need to think of a reasonably sounding title…), but what happen if I have all my friends who blog ping my papers?

Also, before they become research tools, blogs are already a kind of a media tool. And we all know how important it is to advertise your own work. Will the blog-savvy now gain a leg up on those who are blog-stupid?

Ok, back to reading about how to bl….err…..work. Back to work.

By: Crooked Timber » » Blogging arxiv

Crooked Timber » » Blogging arxiv — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:49:26 +0000

[...] Sean Carroll reports that the arxiv pre-print series has started to integrate itself into the blogosphere; this strikes me as a Very Big Deal indeed for academic blogging. Non-physicists may not be familiar with arxiv (I know that I certainly wasn’t before I started getting interested in network topology) – it’s effectively replaced journal publication as the primary means for physicists to communicate with each other. Journal publication is still important – but as an imprimatur, a proof of quality, rather than a way to disseminate findings to a wider audience. arxiv has now introduced trackbacks – people visiting the abstract of a paper on arxiv can see what blogs have commented on the paper, and read what they have had to say. Furthermore, arxiv has rss feeds of recent papers, classified by subject matter, making it much easier to keep up with new publications in a subfield. [...]