alt Hacker NewsSo what they no longer accept is preprints (or rejects…) It’s of course a pretty big deal given that arXiv is all about preprints. And an accepted journal paper presumably cannot be submitted to arXiv anyway unless it’s an open journal.
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> Is this a policy change?
> Technically, no! If you take a look at arXiv’s policies for specific content types you’ll notice that review articles and position papers are not (and have never been) listed as part of the accepted content types.
> And an accepted journal paper presumably cannot be submitted to arXiv anyway unless it’s an open journal.
You cannot upload the journal’s version, but you can upload the text as accepted (so, the same content minus the formatting).
You can still submit research papers.
People have started to use arXiv as some resume-driven blog with white paper decorations. And people start citing these in research papers. Maybe this is a good change.
> And an accepted journal paper presumably cannot be submitted to arXiv anyway unless it’s an open journal.
Why not? I don't know about in CS, but, in math, it's increasingly common for authors to have the option to retain the copyright to their work.
So we need to create a new website that actually accepts preprints like arXivs original goal from 30 years ago.
I think every project more or less deviates from its original goal given enough time. There are few exceptions in CS like GNU coreutils. cd, ls, pwd, ... they do one thing and do it well very likely for another 50 years.
On a Sidenote: I’d a love a list of CLOSED journals and conferences to avoid like the plague.
For position (opinion) or review (summarizing state of art and often laden with opinions on categories and future directions). LLMs would be happy to generate both these because they require zero technical contributions, working code, validated results, etc.