On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 03:15:36PM +0000, Stevan Harnad wrote: > So the answer is: Sure I'd have been happy to have CogPrints subsumed > by arXiv if that had proved to be the way to get the entire refereed > corpus online and free. But now it looks as if OAI-compliant > distributed Eprint Archiving (including arXiv) will instead be > "subsumed" into the global virtual Eprint Archive.
I have learned not to claim that the arXiv is the Philosopher's Stone, much as I would like it to be. But if you're serious about merging with the arXiv, let's see how well OAI is doing in a year, as measured by the number of search queries at multiarchive OAS agents. -- /\ Greg Kuperberg (UC Davis) / \ \ / Visit the Math ArXiv Front at http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/ \/ * All the math that's fit to e-print *