ArXiv Is Tapping the Brakes(blog.valency.io)

3 pointsby joshbloom3 hours ago1 comment

EdSchouten3 hours ago
Two months ago I decided to upload my very first paper to arxiv.org. As I'm not associated with any research institute, the process has been pretty painful. First I had to get endorsed by someone else to be able to submit a paper to a specific category (cs.DC in my case). After getting that sorted out I was able to upload. However, my submission has been "on hold" ever since.
I really wish arxiv.org provided a bit more transparency here. Why is my submission "on hold"? How many submissions are in front of me? What's the ETA?
- someonebaggy3 hours ago
  Is your paper submitted to an academic journal?
  - EdSchouten3 hours ago
    No, in this case I have no interest in pursuing that.
    someonebaggy2 hours ago
    What do you think arXiv is?
    EdSchouten2 hours ago
    A "free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics."