On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:08:09PM +0000, Steve Hitchcock wrote: > NCSTRL was effectively the model for OAi. Greg Kuperberg suggests that > NCSTRL has not been successful.
I don't want to disparage a project as big and difficult as NCSTRL. It has had some success. It's important. But I don't think that it's nearly as successful as the arXiv. I guess I said something stronger before, that NCSTRL is not as heavily read as the math arXiv, which is much smaller than the whole arXiv system. Well possibly I'm wrong on that. But I note that the math arXiv is just as heavily read on a per-paper basis as the larger parent arXiv system. -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print *
