David_Gerard comments on Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently - Less Wrong

113 Post author: lukeprog 09 May 2011 10:05PM

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Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 10 May 2011 04:01:53PM *  0 points [-]

So a possible first step is to set up a preprint archive for that field

Arxiv accepts papers in any field. Researchers in medicine, chemistry, etc, just do not use it.

ADDED. Oops, I was wrong. From now on, I'll think more before I hit that "Comment" button. (I still think that setting up a preprint server has already been tried in all academic fields except for those where it was obvious that it would not work. Also, I am pretty sure that arxiv.org tried to extend into computer science but never got a sizeable fraction of the papers in that field.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 11 May 2011 09:53:58AM -1 points [-]

OK, the first step is to get them to use it :-) Why does physics do this but not chemistry?