On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Greg Kuperberg wrote:
> Maybe you want to say more conservatively that new submissions should be
> superlinear, i.e., concave up.
Yes, yes, that's it.
(And that's: "new self-archived eprint (whether pre- or post-)," NOT
"new submission." Submission is for journals. Self-archiving is better
described as a "deposit.")
> And maybe instead of asymptotics you are interested in the
> short term. In that case the right way to say it is that you open
> archiving should grow faster in the near term.
Yes, it should go concave up, steeply, until the entire (finite)
current refereed corpus is up there, online and free.
And I do mean steeply. There is no reason it should not all have been
up there, freed, yesterday, so certainly no reason to drag it out for
another decade.
As to "asymptotics": I am referring to the current refereed corpus;
this annual corpus is finite though also itself growing somewhat
annually, but not nearly so fast as to require my refining the shape of
the curve: the "sharp concave up" covers it all...
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