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Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.

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  Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991. Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-08 11:12 -0500
    Re: Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991. jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-08 18:55 +0000

#568961 — Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.

Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.
> http://arstechnica.com/staff/2016/04/biologists-start-sharing-unpublished-work-oh-the-horror/



> Most of you have probably heard of arXiv.org by now. Basically, every
> paper I report on is probably on the arXiv in some form. The site
> hosts draft manuscripts in physics and astronomy. Many of them
> eventually appear in academic journals, although others will spend
> their entire existence in the arXiv.
>
> Five years ago, I assumed that every field had its own equivalent of
> arXiv. So imagine my surprise when I tried to upload my first
> chemistry paper to the chemistry equivalent. Apparently, there was
> one—but publisher Elsevier eventually gained control of it and began
> requiring registration. The site is probably a wasteland by now.
>
> Until recently, biology hadn't even managed to create anything that
> Elsevier would want to acquire. But now, biologists are finally
> getting on the pre-print train with a bioRXiv.
>
> This move has been met with... mixed feelings. For reasons that are
> not clear to me, I follow a lot of people in the biomed and bio
> fields on Twitter, and I have been rather bemused by the reactions
> they've had to having bioRxiv thrust upon them. From an outsider's
> perspective, it seems like an obviously good thing, but not everyone
> is responding as such.


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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.

Fortunately there are not too many biology cranks.


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Jim Pennino

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