Friends: Hear from the horse's mouth about what motivated Paul Ginsparg to set up arXiv, the preprint server to make research papers in physics open as they were, so to say, born, and how arXiv grew to expand to math, computer science and even biology < http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/41677/title/Q-A--One-...

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arXiv, the preprint server was born before the Internet and today it boasts more than a million preprints. Hats of to you Paul. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.