Reyes-Galindo Luis
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Soc Stud Sci. 2016 Aug;46(4):586-606. doi: 10.1177/0306312716642317. Epub 2016 Jul 7.
This article describes the intense software filtering that has allowed the arXiv e-print repository to sort and process large numbers of submissions with minimal human intervention, making it one of the most important and influential cases of open access repositories to date. This article narrates arXiv's transformation, using sophisticated sorting/filtering algorithms to decrease human workload, from a small mailing list used by a few hundred researchers to a site that processes thousands of papers per month. However, there are significant negative consequences for authors who have been filtered out of arXiv's main categories. There is thus a continued need to check and balance arXiv's boundaries, based on the essential tension between stability and innovation.
本文描述了强大的软件筛选功能，该功能使arXiv预印本存储库能够在极少人工干预的情况下对大量提交的论文进行分类和处理，使其成为迄今为止最重要且最具影响力的开放获取存储库案例之一。本文讲述了arXiv的转变，它从一个由几百名研究人员使用的小型邮件列表，通过使用复杂的分类/筛选算法来减少人工工作量，转变为一个每月处理数千篇论文的网站。然而，对于那些被排除在arXiv主要类别之外的作者来说，会有重大的负面后果。因此，基于稳定性与创新性之间的基本矛盾，持续有必要对arXiv的范围进行审视和平衡。
