viXra
| viXra | |
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| Web address | viXra.org |
| Commercial? | No |
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Type of site
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Science |
| Available in | English |
| Current status | Online |
viXra is an electronic e-print archive set up by independent physicist Phil Gibbs as an alternative to the dominant arXiv service operated by Cornell University.
Description[edit]
The viXra covers science and mathematics and caters for the whole scientific community. It accepts submissions without requiring authors to have an academic affiliation and without any threshold for quality.[1] The e-prints on viXra are grouped into seven broad categories: physics, mathematics, computational science, biology, chemistry, humanities, and other areas.[2]
Gibbs' original motivation for starting the archive was to cater for researchers who believed that their preprints had been unfairly rejected or reclassified by the arXiv moderators.[3] As of 2013 it had over 4000 preprints.[4]
As of April 14, 2015, vixra currently contains 10,375 preprints.
References[edit]
- ^ "What’s arXiv spelled backwards? A new place to publish". Nature News Blog. 16 July 2009.
- ^ "ViXra.org open e-print archive". viXra.org. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
- ^ "Fledgling site challenges arXiv server". Physics World. 15 July 2009.
- ^ Gibbs, Philip E. (2013), "A Good Year for viXra", Prespacetime Journal 4 (1): 87–90.
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