Established repositories designed for open access to both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed research literature.

ArXiv.org E-Print Archive

Based on activities supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation with the Los Alamos National Laboratory and by the U.S. Department of Energy, this is a giant repository of e-prints in physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences and computer science.

DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

This service covers over 500 free, full-text quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects.

Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers

Provided by the American Mathematical Society, the Directory's mission is to make available to the mathematical community the current homepage URLs and email contacts of all mathematical preprint and e-print servers throughout the world.

Electronic Preprints and Working Papers

An official Web site of the Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara, this site provides links to directories of Web sites of preprint servers as well as links to individual preprint servers.

"Momentum for eprint archiving" by Peter Suber

From the August 8, 2002 Free Online Scholarship (FOS) Newsletter. Provides an excellent 2002 update of eprint archiving initiatives.

The NASA Astrophysics Data System

This system contains bibliographic records and also full-text scans of much of the astronomical literature. This site is hosted by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

NetPrints™: Clinical Medicine & Health Research

Launched in December 1999 by BMJ Publishing Group and Stanford University's HighWire Press, this Web site provides a place for authors to archive their completed studies - before, during, or after peer review by other agencies. Its scope is original research into clinical medicine and health.

Politics Research Group Working Papers

A collection of working papers from the Politics Research Group of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University from 1996 to the present.

PrePRINT Network

Produced by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Searchable gateway to preprint servers containing information from the disciplines of physics, materials, chemistry and some portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine.

"Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing": Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo and Joan G. Packer. Searcher, October 2000

Interesting overview of preprints, preprint servers and related issues.

Public Library of Science

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource. New! PLoS Biology, the premier open-access electronic journal published by PLoS.

PubMed Central

Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, a repository for biological and medical research articles.

RePEc, Research Papers in Economics

This is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 30 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components

The Sciences: Science Preprint and Archive Servers

From the John Crerar Library at the University of Chicago, this site furnishes links to many preprint and archives servers.

"Setting Up an Institutional e-Print Archive": Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner and John MacColl. Ariadne, April 2002

An overview of the main stages involved in setting up an institutional e-print archive based on experience at the universities of Edinburgh and Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

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