arXiv has become a main source of information for statistics and machine learning. Daily email digests tell me what papers have been uploaded since yesterday, including authors, abstracts and a link to the paper. For me this is invaluable at the receiving side.
However, on the producing/publishing side, not everybody thinks that uploading papers to arXiv is a good idea. And there are several good reasons for this:
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