Submissions are not refereed. Papers passing this simple check will appear in the Repository within 24 hours. Authors can submit papers through the LANL interface. Currently, the searching is only on the metadata provided by authors, which includes abstracts, titles, and authors. We are looking into providing full-text search.
Readers can also request to be notified of new submissions that fall within their search profile.
Submission to the Repository does not require a transfer of copyright. Authors have 24 hours to withdraw or revise a paper. Updated versions of a paper can be posted at any time, but versions not removed or changed within 24 hours of submission will remain on the Repository. The version of the paper accessed will be the most recent version, but there will be pointers to the earlier versions. In the long term, well managed repositories, such as CoRR, will clearly change the role of conventional journals.