Free Online Scientific Repository Hits Milestone

ocean_soul writes "Last week the free and open access repository for scientific (mainly physics but also math, computer sciences...) papers arXiv got past 500,000 different papers, not counting older versions of the same article. Especially for physicists, it is the number-one resource for the latest scientific results. Most researchers publish their papers on arXiv before they are published in a 'normal' journal. A famous example is Grisha Perelman, who published his award-winning paper exclusively on arXiv."

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Re:There are interesting differences

[16384]

Condensed matter physics and high energy physics also have a large presence on Arxiv. As you say, it depends largely on which branch of physics you deal with.

Re:i'm the first to comment

[Geoffrey.landis]

>that comma is in the wrong place

Right. The correct number is 500,000 (not "50,0000").

arxiv.org actually says 497,649 as of a moment ago).