[WikiEN-l] Ahhh, physics cranks

[Michael Peel]

> Last time I checked, arXiv was for pre-prints - the word suggests to
> me that it has to actually be going to get printed. It's not supposed
> to be a place to publish papers, just distribute them faster when they
> are being published elsewhere.

That's normally the case, but you do get some papers that just live  
on arXiv and never get published (either not submitted to a journal  
at all, or rejected).

It's always good to have several standard alternatives for  
distributing information, and it will be interesting to see what  
happens with this one. They could have chosen a better name, though -  
vixra sounds like something you'd see in a spam email...

On a en.wp note: I assume that arXiv counts as a (mostly) reliable  
site to reference? It will be interesting to see whether Vixra will  
also be, although I guess it'll be a case of each individual paper/ 
author set being taken on its own merits.

Mike