Re: arXiv (RE: Why Cornell's Institutional Repository Is Near-Empty)

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

> I probably won't be the first to bring up examples from astrophysics and
> other disciplines that are fully (or nearly completely) 
> represented in the arXiv.
Rick Responds:

Yes, but these are preprints, correct?  If arXiv is hosting the 
complete postprint contents of any physics journal (without 
embargo), please let me know so I can cancel my library 
subscription to that title.

Phil replies:

I'm sure there are more current figures, but as of 2002, some 
sections of The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) were nearly fully 
covered by arXiv.  Someone on this list can undoubtedly provide 
more current figures.

"By 2002 72% of ApJ papers were posted as astro-ph preprints, but 
this fraction varies from 22-95% among the subfields studied. A 
majority of these preprints (61%) were posted after the papers 
were accepted at ApJ, and 88% were posted or updated after 
acceptance.

[1] Schwarz, G. J., & Kennicutt, R. C. J. (2004). Demographic and 
Citation Trends in Astrophysical Journal papers and Preprints. 
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 36, 1654-1663. 
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0411275

--Phil Davis