Dave Bacon刚刚公布了一个新的科学网站:SciRate.com。这是一个基于digg.com,arxiv,以及开放获取的网站。
据Bacon说,他之所以建这个网站,是因为arxiv中的论文越来越多,但是质量并不都那么好。从中找好的论文,是很费工夫的。比如通过关键字搜索,并不全面。通过引用率来找好的论文,又实在太慢了。利于SciRate中的投票系统,得票高的论文将排在前面,就象digg.com网站中的新闻排序规则一样。他相信,依靠这种人工的过滤系统,最后能够把好的论文给留下来。现在SciRate只覆盖了arxiv中的quant-ph部分,因为Bacon自己只读这部分的论文。他希望以后能够扩展到其它方向。
Grisha Perelman因arXiv的三篇预印文献解决Poincaré 猜想而获得了Fields Medal, arXiv对此事的反应是把Grisha Perelman的三篇文章放在首页. 这事这人都是前所未有~~!
22 Aug 2006: arXiv.org servers are currently under very heavy load due to demand for Grisha Perelman's papers, published only as arXiv.orge-prints, which are available below. We encourage you to use a mirror such as lanl.arXiv.org or aps.arXiv.org, and we thank you for your patience as we try to accommodate the demand. Perleman was named a Fields Medalist at the opening ceremony of the International Mathematical Union.