Dr Subbiah says "One can self archive both preprints and postprints. I > suggest that Suhail visit the arXiv and spend a few > minutes to know about one of the most popular > centralised archives........Suhail may also visit CiteSeer as well as read the > papers of Steve Lawrence"
I visited both. The former is mainly for the mathematical sciences. Both have a very user unfriendly interface and searches that are not comparable to say for example PubMed. Furthermore, in the medical sciences, I wouldnt want to self archive anything till it has been published and indexed on Medline or Pubmed. There are many problems related to dissemination of non-published research and archiving is not recognised for any purpose apart from helping disseminate information, and that is never the primary intent of researchers (lets face the facts). In the end, medical researchers at least, will find it easier to email each other till some other facility comes along. Suhail