Research Preprints: Server List

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1		See https://asapbio.org/preprint-servers for another comprehensive list of preprint servers; all data in this sheet is CC0/public domain, https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0. Last update 22 April 2022.
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4	Advance	https://advance.sagepub.com/	Humanities and Social Sciences	2018		doi	CC-BY, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-ND	Any	Any	SAGE			"Advance: a SAGE preprints community allows researchers within the fields of humanities and social sciences to post their work online and free of charge. Advance welcomes a variety of preprint* types, including, but not limited to, original research, literature reviews, commentaries, and case studies. Once accepted, each preprint will be freely available online to the research community and peers and will benefit from our monitored commenting feature. Advance facilitates broad dissemination of ideas earlier in the research process and extends SAGE's mission of disseminating research on a global scale, in turn further supporting open science. "
5	AfricArxiv	https://info.africarxiv.org	All	25/06/18		doi	LGPL3, LGPL2.1, BSD3, BSD2, CC BY4, Artistic License 2, CC0, Apache 2, Mozilla public 2, AFL3, Eclipse public 1, MIT, GNU3, GNU2	Any	Any	Partners with Zenodo, OSF, ScienceOpen, Pubpub	management & executive team & advisory board	non-profit, decentralized, mixed funding
6	AgriXiv	https://agrixiv.org/	Agriculture	15/02/17		doi	CC0, CC BY	Any	Any	CABI (formery Open Science Framework)	Advisory board and working group
7	Arabixiv	https://arabixiv.org/	All	18/1/2018		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering Committee
8	arXiv	https://arxiv.org	Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics	14/8/1991		arxiv ID / DOI	Various, see https://arxiv.org/help/license	LaTeX	PDF, Postscript, DVI, tex	Cornell University Library	CUL holds the overall responsibility for arXiv’s operation and development, with strategic and operational guidance from its Member Advisory Board (MAB) and its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)	Funded by Cornell University Library, the Simons Foundation and by the member institutions.
9	APSA Preprints	https://preprints.apsanet.org/	Political Science	29 August 2019		DOI	All rights reserved, CC BY NC ND, CC BY NC SA, CC BY, CC0	PDF, Powerpoint	PDF	The American Political Science Association and Cambridge University Press				Announced 6 March http://www.cambridge.org/about-us/news/american-political-science-association-and-cambridge-university-press-collaborate-launch-apsa-preprints/
10	Authorea	https://www.authorea.com/preprints	Any				Unclear	Authorea editor	HTML	Wiley/Atypon		Authors pay for document hosting, free options available	Authorea is an online collaborative document editor built for researchers that also acts as a preprint server. The editor supports multiple markup languages (including LaTeX) and has built-in functionality for citing, hosting data, and issuing digital object identifiers (DOIs). It is the only preprint server that displays scientific articles in full HTML5 rendering for maximum discoverability.
11	BodoArXiv	https://osf.io/preprints/bodoarxiv	Medievil studies	21 March 2019		DOI	No license, CC0, CC-BY	Any	Any	Initiative of ScholarlyHub; hosted on Open Science Framework	Steering group
12	BioHackrXiv	https://biohackrxiv.org	Life sciences, healthcare	7 April 2020		DOI	CC0, CC-BY, CC-BY-NC-ND	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering group
13	bioRxiv	http://biorxiv.org	Biology	‘November 2013		DOI	CC-BY, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-NC-ND, CC0, no reuse	PDF, Word	PDF	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory	Advisory board	Run by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (additional funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation)
14	Cambridge open engage	https://www.cambridge.org	Any	29 August 2019 (?)		DOI	All rights reserved, CC BY NC ND, CC BY NC SA, CC BY, CC0	PDF and Poweroint (+ other formats for supp data)		Cambridge University Press				Hosts other preprint servers (e.g., APSA Preprints)
15	CERN document server	https://cds.cern.ch/collection/Preprints	Particle physics		CERN servers			Common text formats (PDF preferred), JPG preferred for images	As submitted	CERN		Funded by CERN		Only available to those with a CERN login
16	ChemRxiv	https://chemrxiv.org	Chemistry	15/8/17		DOI	CC BY-NC-ND, CC BY-NC, CC BY	PDF	PDF	American Chemical Society (ACS), Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ), German Chemical Society (GDCh), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)		Supported by governing organizations; accepts sponsorship from other organisations.
17	ChinaXiv	http://chinaxiv.org/home.htm	All	January 2016		ChinaXiv ID	Not specified on all articles		PDF	Chinese Academy of Sciences		Fully funded by CAS
18	CORE repository	https://mla.hcommons.org/core/	Languages	2008	Columbia University Library long-term	doi	Creative Commons, All Rights Reserved	Most common file types, see FAQ https://mla.hcommons.org/core/faq/; PDF preferred for text.		Modern Languages Associate (MLA) and the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University
19	Cryptology ePrint Archive	http://eprint.iacr.org	Cryptology	1996		URL	CC BY, no license indicated		PDF	International Association for Cryptologic Research				Replaced the Theory of Cryptology Library in 2000; appears to allow postprints
20	EasyChair preprints	https://easychair.org/publications/preprints	All	14/10/2017
21	EarthArXiv	https://eartharxiv.org/	Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Ecology	25/10/2017		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license			California Digital Library from Oct 2020 (formerly Open Science Framework)	Steering committee
22	EcoEvoRxiv	https://ecoevorxiv.org	ecology, evolution and conservation	14/1/2019		doi	CC-BY-SA	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering committee			See http://www.ecoevotransparency.org/2019/01/14/ecoevorxiv-launched/ for info about launch.
23	ECONSTOR	https://www.econstor.eu/dspace/	Economics and Business Studies	1966		hdl.handle.net identifier	http://www.zbw.eu/elektronische_angebote/docs/econstor_deposit_license.pdf	PDF	PDF	ZBW, Leibniz Information Centre for Economics			Documents indexed include working papers, articles books, theses, and more.
24	ECSarXiv	https://ecsarxiv.org	Electrochemistry and solid state science	15/5/2018		doi		Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering committee
25	EdArXiv	https://edarxiv.org	Education	11 June 2019		DOI	MIT, CC0, AFL, CC-BY-SA, No license, LGPL, GNU, BSD 3, Mozilla Public, BSD 2, CC BY-NC-ND, Eclipse Public, Apache, Artistic, CC-BY	Any	Any		Steering committee
26	E-lis	http://eprints.rclis.org/	Library and information science	2002		Record numbers	Copyright retained by authors, license not specified on all papers; CC0	Any	Any	"Federico II" University of Naples (Italy)		Hosted by "Federico II" University of Naples (Italy)		Changed hosts in May 2017
27	Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity	https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/eccc/	Computer Science	1994		Year/article number	Not specific on all papers	LaTeX	PDF	Weizmann Institute of Science	Scientific board
28	Elpub preprints	https://preprints.ru	All	Autumn 2019		doi	CC BY (on about page, not article pages)		PDF	National Electronic Information Consortium (NEICON) ?	Unclear			Content mainly in Russian, some in also in English
29	engrxiv	https://engrxiv.org/	Engineering	27/07/16		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	steering committee of engineers and librarians
30	ESSOAr	https://www.essoar.org/	Geology and related fields, including space sciences, biology, water resources, and education	2018		doi	CC BY-NC-ND, BY-NC	PDF	PDF	American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Atypon	Editorial Board			Uses Atypon as the submission system
31	FocUS Archive	https://osf.io/preprints/focusarchive	Ultrasound	2/7/2018		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering committee
32	Frenxiv	https://frenxiv.org	All	18/1/18		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering committee			French papers. Check in August 2020 shows a large number of papers not written in French
33	INA-Rxiv	https://osf.io/preprints/inarxiv	All	22/8/17		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Good Science Indonesia			Includes Indonesian language papers See also RINarxiv
34	IndiArxiv	https://indiarxiv.org	All	August 2019		doi	CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND	Any	Any	http://openaccessindia.org	Steering committee/advisory board
35	JMIR Preprints	https://preprints.jmir.org/				DOI								Strongly linked to JMIR journals and author who don't want their articles forwarding to a journal need to say so in a cover letter.
36	LawArxiv	https://osf.io/preprints/lawarxiv	Law	May 2017		DOI	CC0, CC BY, no license			Open Science Framework				Search in August 2020 showed a large number of out-of-scope papers, suggesting a low level of triage at present. January 2020: no longer accepting manuscripts.
37	LIS Scholarship Archive	https://osf.io/preprints/lissa	Librarian and information science	12/7/17		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering committee, see https://lissarchive.org/who-we-are/			Search in August 2020 showed a large number of out-of-scope papers, suggesting a low level of triage at present.
38	LingBuzz	http://ling.auf.net	Linguistics	2002		lingbuzz identifier	Not defined, authors retain copyright	PDF	PDF	Hosted by the University of Tromso	Run by Michal Starke	Fully funded by Uni of Tromso		Also includes published papers.
39	Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive (mp_arc)	https://web.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/?	mathematical physics and related areas	1991-present		item number		No restrictions. Listed format examples: AMS-TeX, Postscript, or LaTeX 2e with 2 PS Figures	Postscript or PDF	Department of Mathematics at University of Texas at Austin				https://web.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/mp_arc-home.html?
40	MedRxiv	https://www.medrxiv.org	Medicine	25/6/19		doi	CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, CC0, or no reuse	MS Word or PDF	PDF	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (owner), Yale University and BMJ	Unclear from website
41	MediArxiv	https://mediarxiv.org	Film, media and communication studies	13/02/19		DOI	No license, CC BY, CC0, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-ND	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering Committee
42	MetaArXiv	https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv	Social Sciences	03/07/17		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Advisory board			As of 2019, the name of this repository was changed from BITSS to MetaArXiv. See: https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv. In August 2020 some out-of-scope preprints are appearing.
43	MindRxiv	https://mindrxiv.org	mind and contemplative practices	9/7/17		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Advisory board
44	MitoFit Preprint Archives	https://www.mitofit.org/index.php/MitoFit	mitochondrial physiology and bioenergetics	February 2019		doi	None give on abstract pages	"text file" with accompanying submission form	PDF	Oroboros Instruments	Advisory board
45	Munich Personal RePEc Archive	https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de	Economics	April 1993		repec handle	Any	PDF	PDF				RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 90 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences. The heart of the project is a decentralized bibliographic database of working papers, journal articles, books, books chapters and software components, all maintained by volunteers. The collected data are then used in various services that serve the collected metadata to users or enhance it.
46	NBER Working papers	http://www.nber.org/papers	Economics	1973-present		doi; NBER Working Paper Number		Word Perfect, Word Files, or PDF	PDF	The National Bureau of Economic Research			Papers are eligible for NBER distribution if one or more authors are NBER Faculty Research Fellows or Research Associates. If the paper was prepared for an NBER-sponsored research meeting which will be published as an NBER conference volume, it may be distributed even if no authors are affiliates. NBER papers are generally limited to 85 pages; for longer papers, please consider separating some content into an on-line-only appendix.
47	NutriXiv	https://osf.io/preprints/nutrixiv	Nutrition sciences	24/8/17		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework
48	Open Anthropology Research Repository	https://www.openanthroresearch.org	Anthropology	08/08/19		doi	Non-exclusive', CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND	PDF/Word/LaTeX	PDF	American Anthropological Association	Advisory group
49	Optimization Online	http://www.optimization-online.org/index.html	Mathematical optimization	August 2000		none?	See http://www.optimization-online.org/policy.html "other users of Optimization Online are granted permission to download the paper for personal use. Authors are responsible for removing a paper from the site once copyright for the paper has been transferred to a publisher"	Postscript/PDF	PDF	Mathematical Optimization Society	Board of Coordinators		Hosted on the servers at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
50	OSF preprints	https://osf.io/preprints/	All	29/08/16		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Advisory group	Supported by the Center for Open Science	OSF Preprints is part of the Center for Open Science’s ongoing commitment to open and transparent research practices. The new preprints service is built on our flagship platform, the Open Science Framework, which helps researchers design and manage their project workflow, data storage, DOI management, and collaboration. We developed OSF Preprints to facilitate and accelerate new models of scholarly communication, improve accessibility of scholarship, facilitate timely feedback on scholarship, improve scholarly communication, and provide a single search interface to access a number of preprint providers.
51	PaleorXiv	https://osf.io/preprints/paleorxiv/	Paleontology	24/8/17		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering Committee, see http://fossilsandshit.com/paleorxiv/
52	PhilArchive	https://philarchive.org	Philosophy	2009		PhilPapers/Archive ID	Not shown on abstract pages		PDF	PhilArchive is developed and operated by the Centre for Digital Philosophy at Western University.	Editorial board			Formerly known as PhilPapers Archive; includes postprints as well as preprints
53	Philsci Archive	http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu	Philosophy of Science	Content: 1983 Archive start date: 2001		assigned item numbers	Author's choice. "Even though the copyright for your work may not be registered, you are encouraged to assert your copyright on the title page of your work."		PDF	Partnership between the University of Pittsburgh Library System, Department of Hisotry and Philosophy of Science and Center for Philosphy of Science. Uses EPrints 3 software. Indexed in PhilPapers.	Archive Manager and Archive Board		Its goal is to preserve and foster the rapid exchange of new work in philosophy of science. We aim to provide a stable, openly accessible repository in which scholarly articles and monographs may find a permanent home... While tailored specifically to philosophers of science, PhilSci-Archive follows the same principles of openness and critical exchange that underlie pre-print archives in physics (arXiv) and biology (biorXiv)...The range of admissible topics and the style of analysis is set by the topics and styles of material publishable in the Philosophy of Science Association journal, Philosophy of Science	Source beyond the preprint homepage: Davis, M. E. (2001). "Pitt develops e-print server." College & Research Libraries News 62(6): 582.
54	Preprints.org	http://www.preprints.org	All	5 Mar 2016	Portico	doi	CC BY	Word, LaTeX	PDF	MDPI	Advisory board	Funded by MDPI	Preprints is an interdisciplinary preprint server run on a not-for-profit basis the open access publisher MDPI. Submitted preprints are put online within 24 hours after a screening process and all preprints receive a doi and can be commented on.
55	PsyArXiv	https://psyarxiv.com/	Psychology	15/08/16		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering Committee
56	ResearchGate	https://www.researchgate.net	All	2008			Any	Any	Any	Researchgate	Owned by Researchgate GmbH
57	Research Square	https://www.researchsquare.com	all scientific areas, including physical, biomedical and social sciences	October 2018		Portico	CC BY	doc, docx, RTF, Tex/LaTeX	PDF	Research square group				Research square is a sister company of American Journal Editors
58	RINarxiv	https://rinarxiv.lipi.go.id/lipi	All	May 2020					PDF	Indonesian Open Science Team, hosted by PKP				Posts preprints in Indonesian Led on from INAarxiv
59	SciELO Preprints	https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo	All	08/04/20		doi	CC BY	PDF	PDF	Scielo				Accepts Spanish, English, and Portuguese submissions
60	SocArxiv	https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/	Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Law, and Education	13/07/16		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Steering Committee		SocArXiv is an open archive of the social sciences. It provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code. SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.
61	SportRxiv	https://osf.io/preprints/sportrxiv	sport science	21/8/17		doi	CC0, CC BY, no license	Any	Any	Open Science Framework	Advisory board
62	SSOAR	https://www.gesis.org/en/ssoar/	Social Sciences; specifically mentioned: sociology, political science, social policy, social psychology, population research, historical social research, employment research, and communication sciences			Uniform Resource Name	"When you publish your work via SSOAR, you grant GESIS, as the operator of the repository, a non-exclusive right of use in the work in accordance with copyright law, thereby allowing us to store the full text, make it available for online use (to view, download, and print), and convert it into other data formats for the purpose of long-term archiving. Moreover, via the terms of use agreement or the cooperation agreement (links to the respective documents can be found under the menu item “Information/Downloadable Information”) GESIS is granted the right to use the full text for the purpose of information science research and text- and data mining activities. We do this in order to continuously optimise our services and, for example, to link full texts with the underlying research data sets that are cited in the text itself and are available in open access. Please check, if necessary with the help of our Guidelines, whether your are entitled to grant GESIS a non-exclusive right of use in the work. In the case of a work by multiple authors, please also check whether all the authors consent to your making the work available in open access in SSOAR."		PDF	GESIS			SSOAR is maintained by GESIS. Includes 70 working paper series Source: https://www.gesis.org/en/ssoar/home/about-ssoar/ Other document types include journal articles, monographs, and theses/dissertations. Source: ttps://www.gesis.org/en/ssoar/home/about-ssoar/	Accepts German and English submissions
63	SSRN	https://www.ssrn.com/en/	Social Sciences	1994		abstract number	Not defined	PDF	PDF	Elsevier	Sections directed by an active researcher	Allows users to sell papers; subscriptions to SSRN-based journals	SSRN is an open-access online pre-print community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions. Specializing primarily in social sciences, including economics, law, corporate governance, and humanities, SSRN is branching out in to other science disciplines providing opportunities for scholars to post their early research, collaborate on theories and discoveries, and get credit for their ideas before peer reviewed publication.	SSRN platform includes disciplinary research networks including ARN (accounting), Anthropology and Archeology (AARN), Biology (BioRN), Chemistry (ChemRN), Classics (CRN), Computer Science (CompSciRN), Cognitive Science (CSN), Corporate Governance (CGN), Economics (ERN), Education (EduRN), Engineering (EngRN), Entrepreneaurship (ERPN), Finance (FEN), Health Economics (HEN), Hebrew (HRN), Information Systems & eBusiness (ISN), Innovation (IRPN), Law (LSN), Leadership (LRN), Literature (LIT), Management (MRN), Marketing (MKT), Medical (MedRN), Music and Composition (MRCN), Negotiation (NEG), Philosophy (PRN), Political Science (PSN), Rhetoric & Communication (RCRN), Social Insurance (SIRN), Sustainability (SRPN), and Women's & Gender Studies (WGSRN). See https://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm); More information: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/ssrn
64	TechRxiv	https://www.techrxiv.org/	Aerospace Bioengineering Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems Computing and Processing Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas Engineering Profession Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics General Topics for Engineers Geoscience Nuclear Engineering Photonics and Electrooptics Power, Energy and Industry Applications Robotics and Control Systems Signal Processing and Analysis Transportation	08/10/19		doi	CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA, or CC0	??	??	IEEE	Advisory Board		TechRxiv (pronounced "tech archive") is an open, moderated preprint server for unpublished research in electrical engineering, computer science, and related technology. By using TechRxiv, authors can quickly disseminate their work to a wide audience and gain community feedback on a draft version of their research. A preprint is a draft version of an article; final versions of published articles should not be submitted to TechRxiv.
65	Therapoid	https://therapoid.net/en/preprint/	Therapeutics	2/8/17		doi	Not clear	??	PDF	Open Therapeutics				Unsure if it's open for submissions, seems to be a pilot website
66	ViXra	http://vixra.org	All	25/02/07		vixra ID	Not clear							Started as a spin-off of arxiv
67	WikiJournal Preprints	https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/WikiJournal_Preprints	All	08/10/17		URL	CC licenses	text (via wikimedia)	PDF and HTML	WikiJournal User Group	Advisory board	Hosted by WikiMedia Foundation nonprofit	WikiJournal Preprints is an open-access online multidisciplinary pre-print server that operates on the MediaWiki platform. This makes it well suited to collaborative writing with detailed versioning and ability for commenting. Articles can be submitted to any journal, but the server is particularly well set up for submission to WikiJournals and subsequent Wikipedia-integration. It can also import wikipedia articles as startiing points for articles (Wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiJPre).
68	Zenodo	https://zenodo.org/	All	24/08/11	CERN servers	doi	CC licenses, CC0 for metadata, no license indicated?	Any (up to 50 GB)	Any	Open Aire/CERN		Funded by CERN, OpenAire and the EU
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