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ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul

A multimillion-dollar funding drive is being readied to transform arXiv, the vastly popular repository to which physicists, computer scientists and math­ematicians flock to share their research preprints openly.
But the results of an enormous user survey published this week suggest that researchers are wary of drastic changes to a site that has become an essential part of the infrastructure of modern science.

Source: ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul

After the recent sale of SSRN to Thomson Reuters there was some discussion among law faculty about the possibility of launching a new service based on ArXiv or something like it. This article serves to remind us that such a project is feasible, but likely requires strong backing of a major law school or university.

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My Twitter Digest for 06/29/2016

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Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions | AWS Blog

EFS lets you create POSIX-compliant file systems and attach them to one or more of your EC2 instances via NFS. The file system grows and shrinks as necessary (there’s no fixed upper limit and you can grow to petabyte scale) and you don’t pre-provision storage space or bandwidth. You pay only for the storage that you use.

Source: Amazon Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions | AWS Blog

We’ve been waiting for this. Managing our own NFS is a bit of a pain.

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My Twitter Digest for 06/27/2016