Cornell Chronicle: The arXiv at 20: a global resource
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"As the e-print arXiv of scientific publications celebrates its 20th anniversary, what started as an effort to "level the playing field" for researchers has created a whole new playing field on which the white lines are still not clearly drawn....As of September 2011, the system had accumulated more than 700,000 papers, with more than 6,000 new submissions arriving each month; in 2010 65 million full-text articles were downloaded...."