1. Sunday October 28, 2000 2www.eprints.org Cross-Discipline Self-Archiving through Distributed Archives … or changing this... arXiv submission rates - linear growth only 30% of citations to papers deposited in arXiv

2. Sunday October 28, 2000 4www.eprints.org … into this... Exponential growth in archiving to catch up with paper-based research 100% of papers archived, in all disciplines

3. Sunday October 28, 2000 11www.eprints.org Making Research Global VisibilityAccess France Harvard financial firewalls

4. Sunday October 28, 2000 7www.eprints.org The Global Research Database

5. Sunday October 28, 2000 14www.eprints.org Citation Linking & Scientometric Analysis

6. Sunday October 28, 2000 8www.eprints.org Citation-ranked Searches

7. Number of times a Paper is Read Average of 10 hits per paper per year from the UK mirror, for the papers first year. 140 hits per paper per year assuming all 14 mirrors have equal traffic. The arXiv main site receives 14.5 times as many hits as the UK mirror Estimated 145 hits per paper per year on the main site. Estimated total of nearly 300 hits per paper per year.

8. Are papers downloaded then cited or cited then downloaded?(2) If all these time differences are plotted the above graph is produced.

9. Citation Latencies The raw data show that the latency of the citation peak has been reducing over the period of the archive

10. The “New Paper Rush” Users subscribe to an email alerting service that informs them of new papers.

11. Article Embryology Papers with a journal reference [J-R] cross papers without a J-R at an age of 13 months, suggesting a time difference of 13 months between pre-print and post-print

12. Paper Impact The papers were split into three sets based on the number of citations to them. There are an equal number of citations to the papers in the low, medium and high sets.

13. Author Impact Quartiles High impact authors update more than medium or low High and medium impact authors deposit more papers than low

14. Citation Quality Papers generally cite papers of like impact (  2 underway).

15. Citation Spread A small number of papers receive a very large number of citations

16. How Paper Impact Effects Usage Higher impact papers have a longer download life expectancy.

17. What is the correlation between citations and downloads? There is a significant positive correlation between citations and downloads for high impact papers.