Press kit
One-page reference for journalists, researchers, and answer engines. Every fact below is verifiable from the live site or the ISSN portal record. Contact for interviews: press@openxiv.net.
Fact sheet
| Name | OpenXiv |
|---|---|
| Site | https://openxiv.net |
| Founded | 2026-05-18 |
| ISSN | 3120-9556 (registered 2026-05-18) |
| ISSN portal record | https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/3120-9556 |
| Operator | David Alfyorov (single operator) |
| Location | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Stack | Astro 5 SSR, React 19, Postgres, BullMQ on Redis, MinIO, AT Protocol |
| Federation | AT Protocol bridge posts to Bluesky |
| Default license | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Metadata license | CC0 |
| Bluesky handle | @openxiv.bsky.social |
| Contact | press@openxiv.net |
| OAI-PMH base | https://openxiv.net/oai-pmh |
| Atom feed | https://openxiv.net/feed.atom |
Founder bio
David Alfyorov is the founder and sole operator of OpenXiv. He registered the OpenXiv ISSN with the ISSN International Centre on 2026-05-18 and operates the site from Vilnius, Lithuania.
OpenXiv started after the 2026-05 arXiv update introducing 12-month author bans for unverified AI-generated content. The bet behind OpenXiv is that a preprint server can hold a strong line against hallucinated and fabricated content without holding a line against the authors who use AI honestly.
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Suggested story angles
- A preprint server on AT Protocol, federating to Bluesky
OpenXiv is the first preprint server to publish each paper as an AT-proto record on the author's personal data server, with a bridge post into Bluesky. Discovery happens in the same social feed scientists already read.
- A preprint server with no endorsement gate
OpenXiv accepts submissions from independent researchers without requiring an institutional affiliation, an endorser, or an institutional email. The trade-off is that every paper goes through content checks for hallucinated citations and fabricated data.
- A different answer to the arXiv AI ban
Where arXiv has banned authors for unverified AI errors, OpenXiv refuses individual papers with a public refusal packet that names the failure mode, and lets the author revise and resubmit. AI is welcome at four declared levels; hidden AI use is the violation.
- Typed endorsements instead of generic likes
Endorsements on OpenXiv are verbs (verified derivation, reproduced result, checked references, useful background, important but flawed, needs correction). The Trust Passport surfaces them as separate evidence lanes.
- Three audience-tiered explainers per paper
Every paper ships with three AI-generated, author-edited explainers: school, undergrad, expert. Readers pick the tier that matches their background, then drop into the original PDF when they are ready.
Boilerplate
OpenXiv is a preprint server built on the AT Protocol. Founded 2026-05-18 and registered as a periodical under ISSN 3120-9556, OpenXiv publishes preprints as AT-proto records that federate to Bluesky as bridge posts. It accepts independent researchers without institutional affiliation, refuses unverified or hallucinated content with a public refusal packet, and pairs every paper with three audience-tiered explainers (school, undergrad, expert). Operated by David Alfyorov from Vilnius, Lithuania.