Math and CoRR!
NAW, (2007)Abstract
On a business level, the concept of printed scientific journals is becoming outdated. The often small circulation numbers forces publishers to increase the prices to unreasonable levels, while almost all of the work on the content, from writing and editing articles, reviewing them, to looking after publicity, is done for free by the scientific staff of universities or other institutes. Moreover, articles in journals are often written years before their publication. For these reasons it seems natural, certainly in high-tech environments such as a scientific department, that authors embrace electronic publication. The preprint server www.arxiv.org already exists some sixteen years. In this short article, Krzysztof Apt reacts enthusiastically to the call from Tom Koornwinder to use this archive more often.