Cornell’s e-print arXiv to be more interactive

Cornell University’s

arXiv project, which includes an e-print archive of scientific papers, is looking to covert the existing simple database to a more interactive one. It is being projected as a place where authors, articles, databases and readers talk to each other to help users identify a work’s main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work. The project is funded by a three-year $883,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, with federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).The arXiv currently contains close to 600,000 papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics, with some 5,000 new papers submitted each month.

Researchers submit their work as ‘preprints’ before formal publication.

New tools will link papers by concepts, not just by the citations they contain. This is expected to help users without advanced expertise including some outside the scientific community – understand the significance of new research. The system will also identify related databases and commentaries.

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Planets and planetary systems / Stephen Eales	Stochastic dynamics and Boltzmann hierarchy / by D. Ya. Petrina	Nonlinear cosmic ray diffusion theories / by Andreas Shalchi
Mrs. Perkins’s electric quilt : and other intriguing stories of mathematical physics / Paul J. Nahin	Rheophysics : the deformation and flow of matter / Patrick Oswald ; translated by Doru Constantin	Primordial cosmology / Patrick Peter and Jean-Philippe Uzan ; translated by Jasna Brujic and Claudia de Rham
Explorations in harmonic analysis : with applications to complex function theory and the Heisenberg group / Steven G. Krantz ; with the assistance of Lina Lee	LEP : the lord of the collider rings at CERN 1980-2000 : the making, operation and legacy of the world’s largest scientific instrument / Herwig Schopper ; with a foreword by Rolf-Dieter Heuer	Nuclear reactions for astrophysics : principles, calculation and applications of low-energy reactions / Ian J. Thompson and Filomena M. Nunes

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Mathematics for physics : a guided tour for graduate students / Michael Stone and Paul Goldbart	Special topics in the theory of piezoelectricity / Jiashi Yang, editor	The strangest man : the hidden life of Paul Dirac, mystic of the atom / Graham Farmelo
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