Virtual Reference Collection: Preprint Repositories
Preprint repositories also called archives / servers allows immediate sharing of research results and can provide quick feedback to help in the revision and preparation of a manuscript. It facilitates wide and free dissemination of research.
A preprint is a scholarly manuscript posted by the author(s) to a repository or platform to facilitate open review. authors post their paper under a Creative Commons license which allows reproduction and reuse of the material if attribution is given to the original authors.
Preprint repositories are platforms to facilitate researchers to deposit manuscripts that have not been peer-reviewed or published and to receive early feedback and attract attention to their research at an early stage.
The researchers and faculty members can use these preprints repositories/archives (Physical Sciences arXiv and ChemRxiv, Biomedical Sciences bioRxiv and medRxiv and General Sciences including the Social Sciences SSRN) to share your early research findings/manuscript. It allows wide dissemination of research work and attracts more citations. Preprints are indexed by Scopus and Web of Science and also indexed in scholarly search engines like Google Scholar, Dimensions, Lens, and OSF preprints.
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AGRIRXIV URL- https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/journal/agrirxiv/ AgriRxiv is a free, open access source of unpublished preprints across the agricultural sciences. It is hosted and managed by CABI (cabi.org), an international, inter-governmental, not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. |
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INDIARXIV URL- https://ops.iihr.res.in/index.php/IndiaRxiv IndianRxiv - A Preprints Repository Service for India (eISSN 2583-0007) is a community-led project dedicated to archiving preprints (first drafts of scholarly works) written by Indian researchers to enhance collaborations, promote the visibility of their research, and encourage open science. Open Access India manages the server, which is hosted by the Society for Promotion of Horticulture, Bengaluru. |
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ARXIV URL- https://arxiv.org/ arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv. |
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bioRxiv bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. It is operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a not-for-profit research and educational institution. |
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BodoArXiv URL- https://osf.io/preprints/bodoarxiv BodoArXiv gathers scholarly literature in medieval studies across the disciplines. BodoArXiv is a repository for papers at different stages of development, including works that may later be published as articles or behind a paywall. |
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COGPRINTS URL- https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.org/ CogPrints is a searchable electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, plus areas of computer science , biology, medicine, anthropology , as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition. |
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ChemRxiv ChemRxiv (pronounced 'chem-archive') is a free submission, distribution, and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas. ChemRxiv gives researchers across a broad range of fields related to the chemical sciences the opportunity to share early results with colleagues and receive recommendations for improvement, ahead of formal peer review and publication. |
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ERIC URL- https://eric.ed.gov/ ERIC is an internet-based digital library of education research and information sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides access to bibliographic records of journal and non-journal literature from 1966 to the present. ERIC's mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information for educators, researchers, and the general public. |
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CRYPTOLOGY Cryptology ePrint Archive provides rapid access to recent research in cryptology. Papers have been placed here by the authors and did not undergo any refereeing process other than verifying that the work seems to be within the scope of cryptology and meets some minimal acceptance criteria and publishing conditions. |
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EarthArXiv EarthArXiv is a preprint server devoted to open scholarly communication. EarthArXiv publishes articles from all subdomains of Earth Science and related domains of planetary science. |
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EcoEvoRxiv EcoEvoRxiv (EcoEvo“archive”) is a not-for-profit subject-matter specific research repository for works related to ecology, evolution and conservation. The archived works can be empirical, theoretical, review or of any other research-related type. |
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Educational Resources Information Center URL- http://eric.ed.gov/ The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is an electronic archive of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the United States Department of Education. |
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EPrint Network Special Collection URL- https://archive-it.org/collections/643 This collection provides searching of more than 1 million scientific e-prints. The E-print Network is a deep Web source of scientific and technical information created by researchers active in a wide range of fields, including chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear sciences and engineering, energy research, and computer and information technologies. |
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EngrXiv URL- https://engrxiv.org/ engrXiv (Engineering Archive) is dedicated to the dissemination of engineering knowledge quickly and efficiently. |
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HPRINT URL- https://hal-hprints.archives-ouvertes.fr/ hprints is an Open Access repository for scholarly manuscripts from the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences openly available to the widest possible academic audience. hprints is a tool for researchers to share their scholarly documents. |
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Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive URL- https://web.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/? An electronic archive for research papers in Mathematical Physics and related areas. |
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medrxiv medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences. |
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OSF PREPRINTS Leading preprint service providers use this open source infrastructure to support their communities. It covers a wide range of disciplines, allowing researchers from various fields to share their preprints. OSF PREPRINTS covers the BodoArxiv, Paleorxiv, EdArxiv and SocArxiv. |
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ORGANIC EPRINTS URL- https://orgprints.org/about.html Organic Eprints is an international open access archive of electronic documents related to research in organic food and farming. The archive contains full-text papers together with bibliographic information, abstracts and other metadata. It also offers information on organisations, projects and facilities in the context of organic farming research. |
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PhilSci-Archive URL- http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/ PhilSci-Archive is an electronic archive specifically tailored to and run by philosophers of science. The archive is offered as a free service to the philosophy of science community. Its goal is to promote communication in the field by the rapid dissemination of new work. PhilSci-Archive invites submissions in all areas of philosophy of science, including general philosophy of science, feminist philosophy of science, history and philosophy of science and history of the philosophy of science. |
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Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) URL- http://repec.org/ Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in many countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralizeddatabase of working papers, preprints, journal articles, and software components.[1] The project started in 1997.[2] Its precursor NetEc dates back to 1993. |
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) URL- https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/ SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks. SSRN provides 1,309,415 research papers from 1,479,981 researchers in 70 disciplines. Scopus indexes the articles hosted on SSRN. |
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Solar Physics E-Print Archive URL- http://solar.physics.montana.edu/cgi-bin/eprint/default_page.pl The Solar Physics E-Print Archive is an on-line, searchable archive of links to on-line preprints and unpublished work of broad interest to researchers in solar Physics. |
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VIXRA URL- https://vixra.org/ ViXra.org is an e-print archive set up as an alternative to the popular arXiv.org service owned by Cornell University. It has been founded by scientists who find they are unable to submit their articles to arXiv.org ViXra is an open repository for new scientific articles. |
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