ArXiv.org Reaches 2 million papers and a Reckoning

Wow! I use arxiv.org almost on a daily basis to my study of artificial intelligence and machine learning! What a tremendous speed up in widely and broadly proliferating latest scientific results.

"What started in 1989 as an e-mail list for a few dozen string theorists has now grown to a collection of more than two million papers—and the central hub for physicists, astronomers, computer scientists, mathematicians and other researchers. ..."

ArXiv.org Reaches a Milestone and a Reckoning - Scientific American Runaway success and underfunding have led to growing pains for the preprint server