Preprint Repositories: A Finding Guide

Preprints from research funded through the African Academy of Sciences and AESA, the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa.

Authorea is a multidisciplinary collaborative platform, and this is the search tool for over 16,000 preprints created on this platform.

An electronic collection of self-archived papers in areas related to cognition including: psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, and biology.

DOE PAGES offers free public access to the best available full-text version of DOE-funded scholarly publications - either the peer-reviewed, accepted manuscript (preprint) or the published scientific journal article - after an administrative interval of 12 months.

F1000 articles are published using a fully transparent, author-driven model: the authors are solely responsible for the content of their article. Invited peer review takes place openly AFTER publication, and the authors play a crucial role in ensuring that the article is peer-reviewed by independent experts in a timely manner. Articles that pass peer review are indexed in PubMed, Scopus and other bibliographic databases.

A free service offered by Nature Publishing Group from 2007-2012. It is a permanent, citable archive for pre-publication research and preliminary findings in biology, medicine (except clinical trials), chemistry and earth sciences.

From Center for Open Science. Aggregate finding tool for preprints across disciplines from preprint servers using the OSF open source infrastructure. Over 2.3 million searchable preprint records.

Research Square is a multidisciplinary preprint platform developed and operated by a company of the same name.

Multidisciplinary, open-access pre-print server with easy submission for authors and ability to comment on any submission.

Multidisciplinary preprints hosted by SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), Brazil.

A multidisciplinary preprint service with around a million documents across a variety of areas. Includes sections dedicated to Applied Sciences, Health Sciences, Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.