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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a BOT. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | {{w| | + | {{w|ArXiv}} is a [https://arxiv.org free online repository of electronic preprints of scientific papers] in various fields, particularly in physics, math, and computer science. Scientists typically publish "preprint" versions of journal articles to arXiv, which are free to publish to and read. In this comic [[Megan]] remarks that academic journals must have a hard time getting by, since their primary revenue is from researchers who pay to publish articles and readers who pay for subscriptions. Her remark seems to assume that arXiv must be a recent development, perhaps similar to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub|sci-hub project]] which began in 2011. However, [[Ponytail]] informs her that the arXiv project has been around since the 1990s (1991 to be exact). |
− | After a panel of [[Megan]] looking contemplative, she remarks that that does not make sense at all. After all, why would publishing companies be able to make money from something that is free online? [[Ponytail]] tries to stop her from freaking out, so that her outrage does not inform others about the current arrangement and thus ruin the system | + | After a panel of [[Megan]] looking contemplative, she remarks that that does not make sense at all. After all, why would publishing companies be able to make money from something that is free online? [[Ponytail]] tries to stop her from freaking out, so that her outrage does not inform others about the current arrangement and thus ruin the system. |
− | + | Confusion about the continued existence of scientific journals has also been expressed in [[2025]]. | |
− | The title text refers to another project that is invaluable for internet research, | + | The title text refers to another project that is invaluable for internet research, {{w|archive.org}} [https://archive.org (link)]. It argues that these two projects are so useful, yet make so little economic sense, that, if they did not exist, we would dismiss them as ideas that would never be viable. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | :Megan: Wait, all the papers in your field are posted as free PDFs on | + | :Megan: Wait, all the papers in your field are posted as free PDFs on ArXiv? That must be killing big science journals, since they charge such huge subscription/publication fees. |
− | + | :Ponytail: Nah, we've been doing it since the 90s and nobody seems to care. | |
− | :Ponytail: Nah, | ||
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:Megan: That makes no sense at all!! | :Megan: That makes no sense at all!! | ||
− | :Ponytail: | + | :Ponytail: Shhh, you'll jinx it! |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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