#321 Apeiron journal (again)
Recently, the journal issues were added to github, thanks to hard work by Louis and Roy. I am trying to access a particular article which I might want to cite. When I tried to Google it up, however, I am not directed to the location in github. Should I have been directed there? Also, being chronically disorganized, I have lost sight of the github archive and even our discussion of it. A larger question is: can the articles in Apeiron be usefully cited in research if there is no way for people generally to find them on the web?
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I am not sure how often Google indexes websites, and how often it indexes pdf documents. If the ACG website has not been indexed yet, you won’t be directed to the correct location for Apeiron.
Which keywords did you type in Google for that particular article?
Google has “Webmaster tools” that can be used to direct Google to the relevant pages. When I have more time I’ll set it up to force Google to index the new Apeiron location.
For people like you (and me) there is cosmology.info/ which has links to everything you need in three clicks or less!
You can cite anything and should cite every paper you have used. You can also add the Apeiron website URL to your citation cosmology.info/apeiron/journal_archive.html. If people can’t find your references, they can also write to you and ask for a copy…
Thanks @RedshiftDrift I was able to find the article and I see I can just use the link to that article as a URL when doing a citation.
The article does not show up if using GitHub as a search term, so I guess that Google hasn’t indexed it yet. At the moment we can say that the archive is available to us here in GitHub, but not widely to others. I think at least some of the articles are in Academia.
Long term, it would be nice if Apeiron could be put up and preserved on a university server. I could ask my library about it at U of T.
@ExpEarth Google does not scan the Apeiron folder on GitHub, and never will. That’s why you won’t find any articles there.
What Google will scan, with a little help, is the website https://cosmology.info/apeiron/ When I have more time I’ll set it up to force Google to index the new Apeiron location.
It would be nice if UofT library would archive the Apeiron Journal.
@RedshiftDrift Thanks so much for looking into it! For now I will just submit the paper without a URL to the reference. I will get onto them here about taking Apeiron.
I should point out that in a number of later issues the Mathtype fonts did not get embedded into the PDFs. This can wreak havoc with braces and some other Math symbols. I think the fonts are available on the web somewhere if you use Windows.