Timeline for Why do universities delete professor's personal web pages after they leave?
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| Aug 9, 2023 at 7:57 | comment | added | J W | @DaveLRenfro: Thanks for pointing that out. I thought that perhaps arXiv.org was meant instead of Archive.org. | |
| Aug 9, 2023 at 1:48 | comment | added | Andy Putman | @paulgarrett: The AMS’s Open Math Notes is devoted to archiving things like expository papers and advanced course notes. You might want to think about using them to host your stuff. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 18:49 | comment | added | paul garrett | @NateEldredge, ah, thanks, maybe I have an archaic policy stuck in my head. :) | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 18:49 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | They do say "Submissions that do not contain original or substantive research [...] may be declined", but the examples they give are "undergraduate research, course projects, and research proposals, news, or information about political causes". "Expository papers" are pointedly not listed. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 18:46 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Expository and survey papers and advanced lecture notes get posted on arXiv all the time, and nobody seems to mind. Even if they don't technically fit the requirements, in practice it is quite normal and accepted. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 18:26 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | FYI, @Justin Hilyard asked "Maybe submit it to Archive.org?" (among other possibilities, saving web pages for the Wayback Machine) and the two follow-up comments are about arXiv. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 17:35 | comment | added | J W | Regarding course notes on the ArXiv, an exception would be Milnor's notes on complex dynamics (arxiv.org/abs/math/9201272). Admittedly, there's also his book covering the same material (and more), so the information is available in more than one place. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 16:16 | comment | added | paul garrett | @JustinHilyard, yes, though they do have a mild constraint that documents approximate publishable papers. Probably course notes, even somewhat advanced, don't fit that. The purported distinction between "research" and "exposition" is something I don't want to have to worry about. :) | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 14:12 | comment | added | Idran | "At this point, I do not see a reliable means to do that." Maybe submit it to Archive.org? That's basically their entire raison d'etre. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 2:00 | comment | added | paul garrett | @ZeroTheHero, indeed. Lotta thing will get lost. One depressing analogy is to imagine the Library of Alexandria being burned... and/but on a daily basis?!? Honestly, I have no idea what's going to happen. | |
| Aug 8, 2023 at 1:26 | comment | added | ZeroTheHero | “ ephemeralness of stuff on the internet” : yet most publishers are going online, sometime only online…. what will be the fate papers published today in 100+ years? | |
| Aug 7, 2023 at 20:23 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |