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NameDiscipline(s) [lower-alpha 1] DescriptionSizeCreated [lower-alpha 2] Provider(s)
AAS Open Research Multidisciplinary At least one of the authors must be affiliated with the African Academy of Sciences 2512018 African Academy of Sciences & F1000 Research Ltd
AMRC Open Research Medicine At least one of the authors must be affiliated with AMRC member charities452019 Association of Medical Research Charities & F1000 Research Ltd
agriRxiv Agriculture Global preprint service for agriculture and allied sciences4182017 Open Access India & CAB International
APSA Preprints Political science Early research outputs in political science and related disciplines3492019 American Political Science Association & Cambridge University Press
mp_arc Mathematical physics Main focus: mathematics, physics97791991 (10 July)-2023 University of Texas at Austin, Università Roma Tre, Universitat de Barcelona
arXiv [1] Multidisciplinary Main focus: mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, quantitative finance and economics2,250,000 (2023) [2] 1991 (14 August) Cornell University
AfricArXiv [3] Multidisciplinary Preprint server for interdisciplinary research in Africa1862018 Center for Open Science
Arabixiv Multidisciplinary Arabic Preprint Server4932018 Center for Open Science
ARPHA Preprints Multidisciplinary The submission systems limited to the participating ARPHA journals142020 Pensoft Publishers
Authorea [4] Multidisciplinary A collaborative writing platform that can be used as preprint server11,3342013 Atypon
Beilstein Archives Multidisciplinary Preprint server for Beilstein journals5202019 Beilstein Institut
BioHackrXiv Life Sciences Preprint server to report on works done during BioHackathons, CodeFests, Sprints or similar events39 [5] 2020 Center for Open Science
bioRxiv [6] Biology Open access preprint repository for the biological sciences 194,000 (2023) [7] 2013 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
BodoArXiv Medieval Studies Open Repository for Medieval Studies712019 ScholarlyHub & Center for Open Science
Cell Sneak Peek Biology Manuscript under review in Cell Press journals3,3752018 Elsevier
ChemRxiv [8] Chemistry Open access preprint archive for chemistry 13,8652017 American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry & German Chemical Society
ChinaXiv Multidisciplinary Preprint server for interdisciplinary research in China14,3612016National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences
CogPrints Multidisciplinary Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Computer Science, Philosophy, and Biology4,2301997–2017 University of Southampton
CrimRxiv Criminology Criminology's open archive1872020 University of Manchester
Cryptology ePrint Archive Cryptography Open access preprint archive for cryptography 1,5901996 International Association for Cryptologic Research
EarthArXiv [9] Earth science All subdomains of Earth Science and related domains of planetary science3,8172017 California Digital Library
EcoEvoRxiv Ecology A free preprint service for ecology, evolution and conservation3662018 Center for Open Science
EconStor Economics and Business StudiesA subject based repository with a high share of working papers (preprints)248,0002009 ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
ECSarXiv Electrochemistry A free preprint service for electrochemistry and solid state science and technology1722018 Center for Open Science
EdArXiv Education A Preprint Server For The Education Research Community6202019 Center for Open Science
engrXiv [10] Engineering Open archive of engineering preprints 1,4312016 Open Engineering Inc
ESSOAr Earth science Earth and space science preprints and conference posters2,5262018 American Geophysical Union, Atypon, & Wiley
Eyexiv Vision science The Eye Open Repository, Preprints for ophthalmology, optometry, and vision science 3002022 International Virtual Ophthalmic Research Center
E-LIS Library science Eprints in Library and Information Science22,5192003 E-LIS Governance & CIEPI
F1000 Research Life Sciences Preprint server with integrated option of peer review by invited experts, suggested by the authors, done openly after publication3,7902012 F1000 Research Ltd.
FocUS Archive Ultrasound researchA free preprint service for the focused ultrasound research community432018 Center for Open Science
Frenxiv Multidisciplinary French server for preprints. Closed.1492018–2022 Center for Open Science
Gates Open Research Multidisciplinary A platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2862017 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
HAL [11] Multidisciplinary Open archive for scholarly documents from all academic fields842,3982001 Centre pour la communication scientifique directe
HRB Open Research Medicine A preprint platform for HRB-funded researchers1572018 Health Research Board & F1000 Research Ltd.
hprints Arts and humanities Nordic Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences Open Access repository2742008 French National Centre for Scientific Research & Nordbib
INArxiv Multidisciplinary Preprint server for interdisciplinary research in Indonesia16,4892017–2020 [12] Center for Open Science
IndiaRxiv Multidisciplinary Preprint server for interdisciplinary research in India1342019Open Access India, Center for Open Science & Society for Promotion of Horticulture
Jxiv Multidisciplinary Preprint server in Japan [13] 2792022 Japan Science and Technology Agency
JMIR Preprints Medicine Preprint server by publisher JMIR Publications mainly for open review of JMIR submissions2200 (2018) [14] 2009 [15] JMIR Publications
LawArXiv Law Archive for legal research1,3662017–2020 Center for Open Science
LISSA Library science Library and Information Sciences Scholarship Archive3012018 Center for Open Science
LingBuzz Linguistics Preprint server for linguistics, covering phonology, semantics, syntax, morphology, and diachronic linguistics 7,548 (2023)2004(?) University of Tromsø
MarXiv Marine science Repository for ocean and marine-climate science. Closed.4582017–2020 Center for Open Science
MediArXiv Communication sciences Preprints for media, film, and communication research1122019 Center for Open Science
medRxiv [16] Medicine Open access preprint archive for medicine42,000 (2023) [17] 2019 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
MetaArXiv Multidisciplinary Focused on improving research transparency and reproducibility512 (2023) [18] 2018 Center for Open Science
MindRxiv Multidisciplinary Preprints on mind and contemplative practices2152018 Center for Open Science
Nature Precedings Multidisciplinary Preprint repository of scholarly work in the fields of biomedical sciences, chemistry, and earth sciences 3,4232007–2012 Nature Publishing Group
NutriXiv Nutritional sciences Preprint service for the nutritional sciences812018 Center for Open Science
Optimization Online Mathematics Eprint repository for optimization topics89742000 Mathematical Optimization Society & Wisconsin institute
OSF Preprints Multidisciplinary Aggregates over 30 preprint servers (all from COS plus other like arXiv, bioRxiv, etc.). Number of native OSF Preprints documents: 25,114.2,289,8942017 Center for Open Science
PaleorXiv [19] Paleontology Preprint server for paleontology1742017 Center for Open Science
PeerJ PrePrints [20] Biology, medicine Initially, developed as preprint server for PeerJ submissions. Closed Sep 30th 2019.5,0862013–2019 O'Reilly Media & SAGE Publishing
PhilArchive Philosophy A preprint archive for philosophy affiliated with PhilPapers 74,2802009 PhilPapers Foundation
PhilSci-Archive Philosophy of science An archive for preprints in philosophy of science8,6362001 D-Scribe Digital Publishing
Preprints with The Lancet Medicine Preprints available via SSRN 7,2382018 Elsevier
Preprints.org Multidisciplinary Preprint server for interdisciplinary research governed by MDPI36,623 (2023) [21] 2016 MDPI
Preprints.ru Multidisciplinary Preprint server for interdisciplinary research in Russia2282019 NEICON
PsyArXiv [22] Psychology Open access preprint archive for psychology 29,166 (2023) [23] 2016 Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science
Qeios [24] Multidisciplinary Open access, open peer review scientific publishing platform8582019 Qeios
RePEc Economics Research in economics 3,400,0001997 Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Research Square Multidisciplinary Preprint server plus editing (commercial)223,000 (2023) [25] 2018 Research Square R&D LLC
Rutgers Optimality Archive Linguistics A distribution point for research in Optimality Theory and its conceptual affiliates12501993 School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University
SciELO Preprints Multidisciplinary Interdisciplinary research for Latin America, Iberian Peninsula, South Africa13,7132020 SciELO
ScienceOpen Multidisciplinary A research and discovery network allowing scholars with at least 5 publications to freely review preprints.2,200,0002013 ScienceOpen
SocArXiv Social science Open archive of the social sciences12,880 (2023) [26] 2016 Center for Open Science
SportRxiv Sports science Repository dedicated to sport and exercise related research2792017 Center for Open Science
SSRN (First Look) Multidisciplinary Aggregates over 30 preprint servers (Preprints with The Lancet , Cell Sneak Peek, etc.). More than 55 disciplines. Initially funded by SSRN in 1994, bought in 2016 by Elsevier.950,7331994 Elsevier
TechRxiv Engineering Preprints in Technology Research1,0432020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ViXra [27] Multidisciplinary Mainly physics and mathematics, but also other. An alternative to arXiv. Well-known for also having many unorthodox papers and also fringe science.37,1132009 Scientific God Inc.
Wellcome Open Research Multidisciplinary At least one of the authors must be a Wellcome researcher8202017 Wellcome Trust
WikiJournal Preprints Multidisciplinary Preprint repository of scholarly work in a MediaWiki format522017 WikiJournal User Group
Zenodo Multidisciplinary Preprint repository of scholarly work792,5882011 OpenAIRE / CERN
Synthical [28] Multidisciplinary Open access preprint repository for computer science, mathematics, economics, physics, cryptography, biology, and chemistry 3,000,000 [29] 2023 Synthical

See also

Explanatory notes

  1. The Discipline(s) contain only the repository's main focus, as in virtually all preprint servers there are manuscripts from many subjects.
  2. If Created is red, it means that the preprint server is no longer operating.

Related Research Articles

arXiv Online archive of e-preprints

arXiv is an open-access repository of electronic preprints and postprints approved for posting after moderation, but not peer review. It consists of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, astronomy, electrical engineering, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, mathematical finance and economics, which can be accessed online. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are self-archived on the arXiv repository before publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Some publishers also grant permission for authors to archive the peer-reviewed postprint. Begun on August 14, 1991, arXiv.org passed the half-million-article milestone on October 3, 2008, had hit a million by the end of 2014 and two million by the end of 2021. As of April 2021, the submission rate is about 16,000 articles per month.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Preprint</span> Academic paper prior to journal publication

In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available free, before or after a paper is published in a journal.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open access</span> Research publications distributed freely online

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined, or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open science</span> Generally available scientific research

Open science is the movement to make scientific research and its dissemination accessible to all levels of society, amateur or professional. Open science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks. It encompasses practices such as publishing open research, campaigning for open access, encouraging scientists to practice open-notebook science, broader dissemination and engagement in science and generally making it easier to publish, access and communicate scientific knowledge.

The Journal of Medical Internet Research is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal established in 1999 covering eHealth and "healthcare in the Internet age". The editors-in-chief are Gunther Eysenbach and Rita Kukafka. The publisher is JMIR Publications.

Open peer review is the various possible modifications of the traditional scholarly peer review process. The three most common modifications to which the term is applied are:

  1. Open identities: Authors and reviewers are aware of each other's identity.
  2. Open reports: Review reports are published alongside the relevant article.
  3. Open participation: The wider community are able to contribute to the review process.

An overlay journal or overlay ejournal is a type of open access academic journal, almost always an online electronic journal (ejournal), that does not produce its own content, but selects from texts that are already freely available online. While many overlay journals derive their content from preprint servers, others, such as the Lund Medical Faculty Monthly, contain mainly papers published by commercial publishers, but with links to self-archived preprint or postprints when possible.

viXra is an electronic e-print archive known for unorthodox and fringe science. It was set up by independent physicist Philip Gibbs as an alternative to the dominant arXiv service operated by Cornell University. Its name comes from arXiv spelled backwards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Center for Open Science</span> American nonprofit organization

The Center for Open Science is a non-profit technology organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia with a mission to "increase the openness, integrity, and reproducibility of scientific research." Brian Nosek and Jeffrey Spies founded the organization in January 2013, funded mainly by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and others.

Authorea is an online collaborative writing tool that allows researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data and publish. It has been described as "Google Docs for Scientists". It has been owned by the commercial publishing company Wiley through Atypon since 2018.

bioRxiv Preprint service

bioRxiv is an open access preprint repository for the biological sciences co-founded by John Inglis and Richard Sever in November 2013. It is hosted by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL).

PsyArXiv is a preprint repository for the psychological sciences opened in September 2016 and officially launched in December 2016. It is hosted by the Center for Open Science. The preprint service was inspired by the arXiv repository. The service allows researchers to upload manuscripts regarding psychology and related fields prior to peer review. As of April 2017, it is indexed by Google Scholar.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open access in India</span> Overview of the culture and regulation of open access in India

In India, the Open Access movement started in May 2004, when two workshops were organized by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai. In 2006, the National Knowledge Commission in its recommendations proposed that "access to knowledge is the most fundamental way of increasing the opportunities and reach of individuals and groups". In 2011, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) began requiring that its grantees provide open access to funded research, the Open Access India forum formulated a draft policy on Open Access for India. The Shodhganga, a digital repository for theses, was also established in 2011 with the aim of promoting and preserving academic research. The University Grants Commission (UGC) made it mandatory for scholars to deposit their theses in Shodhganga, as per the Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M. Phil./Ph.D. Degrees Regulations, 2016. Currently, the Directory of Open Access Journals lists 326 open access journals published in India, of which 233 have no fees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">EarthArXiv</span>

EarthArXiv is both a preprint server and a volunteer community devoted to open scholarly communication. As a preprint server, EarthArXiv publishes articles from all subdomains of Earth Science and related domains of planetary science. These publications are versions of scholarly papers that precede publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals. EarthArXiv is not itself a journal and does not evaluate the scientific quality of a paper. Instead, EarthArXiv serves as a platform for free hosting and rapid dissemination of scientific results. The EarthArXiv platform assigns each submission a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), therefore assigning provenance and making it citable in other scholarly works. EarthArXiv's mission is to promote open access, share open access and preprint resources, and participate in shared governance of the preprint server and its policies. EarthArXiv was launched on October 23, 2017.

Jessica Polka is a biochemist and the Executive Director of ASAPbio, a non-profit initiative promoting innovation and transparency via preprints and open peer review. She was one of the organizers of a recent meeting they held on scholarly communication.

ChemRxiv is an open access preprint archive for chemistry. It is operated by the American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry and German Chemical Society. The new preprint server was announced already in 2016, but was only opened online in 2017. Initially, editors of ACS journals were skeptical and only 80% of the editors allowed submissions to be uploaded to the preprint server in 2017. In 2019 the Chinese Chemical Society and the Chemical Society of Japan joined as co-owners of the preprint server.

medRxiv is an online disciplinary repository publishing preprints in all disciplines of the health sciences. It distributes papers in the areas of medicine and clinical research without charge to the reader.

AfricArXiv is an open-access repository for preprints of academic publications which are either about Africa or by African scientists. The platform was established in 2018. It was established to make preprint servers more available in various fields and regions. Its establishment happen during trends to provide more digital services to support science in Africa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Peer Community in</span> Scientific organization

Peer Community in (PCI) is a non-profit scientific organization that offers an editorial process of open science by creating specific communities of researchers reviewing and recommending preprints in their field. Since 2021, a new journal, Peer Community Journal, publishes recommended preprints.

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