Abstract
A physicist in the UK has set up a new website for sharing preprints following criticisms about the way that the popular arXiv site is moderated. Called viXra, which is arXiv backwards, the rival server – unlike arXiv – places no restrictions on the sorts of papers that can be posted. "This is an experiment to find out what kind of stuff is not managing to get onto arXiv, as well as being a serious archive for people to put their research in," says Philip Gibbs, an independent physicist based in Essex and creator of viXra.