| AAS Open Research |
https://aasopenresearch.org/ |
...is a platform for rapid publication and open peer review for researchers supported by AAS and programs supported through its funding platform, AESA |
Multiple scientific fields, including health and wellbeing* |
Unknown |
African Academy of Sciences |
Funding organisation (funder) |
Non-profit |
Article processing charges, covered by funding agency |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English (articles); Accepts posters and slides in all languages - metadata and description must be in English |
All article types (primary and scecondary research), posters and slides |
Word doc, RTF |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, compliant, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), All authors notified, One author affiliated with AAS, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Competing interests, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration, Data, code availability statement |
Unknown |
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author (APC between £120-£800 typically paid by AAS) |
No reader registration required |
Available for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Referee (name, affiliation, referee report), Commenter (name, text, affiliation), Study type, article type |
Google Scholar, Prepubmed, Europe PMC, SciLit |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Community moderation via commenting |
Restricted - manuscript can only be published in journal linked to server |
AAS Open Research |
n/a |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, link to Google Scholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Link to Google Scholar citations, Blog and gateways |
2020-01-23 |
| Advance: a SAGE Preprints Community |
https://advance.sagepub.com/ |
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. |
Humanities and Social Sciences |
2018-08 |
SAGE Publishing |
Publisher |
For-profit |
Nothing to report from server |
Custom Authorea software, Proprietary software with some open source components |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Research manuscripts (including but not limited to: original research, literature reviews, commentaries, and case studies) |
PDF, Word doc, LaTeX |
Yes (HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI suffix |
Accepts any new versions |
Unknown |
Yes |
No |
CC-BY, CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-ND, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-NC-SA, and CC-BY-NC-ND |
Content within scope, text overlap detection, ethical compliance, legal compliance |
Funder acknowledgement, conflict of interest, ethics statements in case of human participants |
Unknown |
|
Before posting |
Staff |
48-72 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Yes via JATSXML, available programmatically through CrossRef or manually (under Download button at top of document) |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Subject category, Full-text content, keywords |
Google Scholar, CrossRef |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
Advance: Humanities & Social Sciences section – None; TransportRxiv section of the preprint server is associated with Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board |
Journals published by SAGE Publishing |
Yes |
N/A (we don’t have an arrangement in place currently) |
Views, Downloads |
Commenting |
Yes |
Unknown |
2024-06-10 |
| AfricArxiv |
https://info.africarxiv.org/ |
...is a free, open source and community-led digital archive for African research |
All scientific fields |
2018-06 |
Small group of enthusiasts |
Academic community group; charity |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Afrikaans, Akan, English, French, Igbo, Swahili, Zulu, other unspecified native African languages - summary must be provided in English and French, non-English languages held in moderation queue awaiting verification |
Any scholarly content |
PDF, Word doc, other text formats |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, endorses, stated on website |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0, BSD 3-Clause "New"/"Revised" License, BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, Artistic License 2.0, CC0 1.0 Universal, Apache License 2.0, Mozilla Public License 2.0, Academic Free License (AFL) 3.0, Eclipse Public License 1.0, MIT License, GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0, GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pZ2kxbTSpjrMWHfhI851rBjsUimArE_UD8aMy5KiUqk/edit#heading=h.7j4b06jfbue8 |
Before posting |
|
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), Author affiliation(s), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| AgriRxiv |
www.agrirxiv.org |
Preprints for Agriculture and Allied Sciences |
Relating to agriculture and allied sciences, including life sciences, social and behavioural sciences |
Unknown |
Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International, in collaboration with Open Access India and others |
Academic community group |
Non-profit |
Supported by CABI |
CABI software |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language (including Arabic, English, French, Indonesian) |
Research manuscripts, case studies, and systematic reviews |
PDF |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0 1.0 Universal, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International |
Content within scope, Manuscript is complete (methods, references), Text overlap detection |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Article is a preprint (not a postprint) |
NA |
|
Before posting |
Staff, volunteers |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Available for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, Crossref, Researcher-app |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
No |
Email support |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Automated |
CABI |
Downloads and other analytics |
Commenting |
Moderated after posting |
Onsite search |
2020-09-08 |
| AMRC Open Research |
https://amrcopenresearch.org/ |
A platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by AMRC (Association of Medical Research Charities) member charities |
Broad life & biomedical research, including basic scientific, translational, applied and clinical research |
Unknown |
Association of Medical Research Charities |
Funding organisation (funder); Membership organisation |
Non-profit |
Article processing charges |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
Not yet |
English (articles); Accepts posters and slides in all languages - metadata and description must be in English |
All article types (primary and scecondary research), posters and slides |
Word doc, RTF |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, compliant, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), All authors notified, One author affiliated with AMRC, Text overlap detection, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Data, code availability statement |
Unknown |
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 1 week |
Author fee applies (min £120; max £800*; £20 per poster, slide or document) |
No reader registration required |
Available for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Referee (name, affiliation, referee report), commenter (name, text, affiliation), study type, article type |
Google Scholar, Prepubmed, Europe PMC, SciLit |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Community moderation via commenting |
Restricted - manuscript can only be published in journal linked to server |
AMRC Open Research |
n/a |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, link to Google Scholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Link to Google Scholar citations |
2020-01-23 |
| Arabixiv |
https://arabixiv.org/ |
The Arabic Preprint Server |
All scientific fields |
2018-1 |
Small group of enthusiasts |
Academic community group |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (unknown if researchers are included) |
Arabic, English |
Any scholarly content |
PDF |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: No license, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0, BSD 3-Clause "New"/"Revised" License, BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, Artistic License 2.0, CC0 1.0 Universal, Apache License 2.0, Mozilla Public License 2.0, Academic Free License (AFL) 3.0, Eclipse Public License 1.0, MIT License, GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0, GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
|
Before posting |
Unknown |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS; Readers encouraged to post concerns publicly as new article |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| ARPHA Preprints |
https://preprints.arphahub.com/ |
Designed for journals hosted on ARPHA Platform that have opted in for this service. Optional for the authors., , |
All scientific fields |
2020-09 |
Pensoft Publishers |
Owned by publisher and technology provider |
Free service |
Supported by the publisher to provide a free service to the RPHa-hosted journals |
Proprietary |
Managed by the publisher and supported by the editorial boards of the participating journals |
English |
All articcle types |
PDF |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI |
No versioning; published articles linked to their preprints. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
CC-BY 4.0 |
Content within scope, Manuscript is complete (methods, references), All authors notified, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Funder acknowledgement, Competing interests, , |
Data, code, or materials availability (depending on the participating journal) |
|
Before posting |
Managing editors of the particpating journals |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to authors |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Possible by editorial decision |
Email administrator, comments |
Manuscript can be published in any ARPHA-hosted journal |
ARPHA-hosted journals that opted in for preprint services |
ARPHA-hosted journals that opted in for preprint services |
Yes, added by the system |
CLOCKS, Zenodo |
Downloads, Altmetrics |
Post-publication comments |
Moderated after posting |
Onsite search |
2020-10-20 |
| arXiv |
https://arxiv.org/ |
Open access to...e-prints |
Multiple scientific fields, including quantitative biology* |
1991-08 |
Cornell University |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
External financial support (grants and membership program: libraries, research labs, philanthropy, government funding) |
SWORD, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language - abstract must be in English |
Research manuscripts only |
PDF, LaTeX, HTML |
Require full-text to be submitted in machine-readable format |
Platform-specific ID (e.g. arXiv ID), each version receives its own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
None as yet |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, non-exclusive license to distribute, any other CC license as specified in manuscript text; with no preference for which license chosen |
Content within scope, Text overlap detection, Misconduct or integrity checks, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Competing interest; all author consent to posting |
Data, code, or materials availability |
|
Before posting |
staff + Volunteers + automated |
<48h |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata) |
Google Scholar, Crossref, Europe PMC and PubMed (NIH-supported preprints only), Preprint Citation Index |
Permanent with no removal options (as long as archive exists) |
Author didn't have the right to post, copyright infringment, national security risks |
Web link remains available and a "withdrawn"watermark is added |
Unknown |
Social media or direct with authors (except copyright violations or significant issues) |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Not available |
Yes, added by platform after one month from publication |
Persistent access through mirror sites, no external preservation services used as yet |
None |
no |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts) |
2023-08-08 (external content indexing only) |
| Authorea |
https://www.authorea.com/ |
...is a platform to discover and publish cutting edge, open research |
All scientific fields |
2017-9 |
Atypon (Wiley) |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
For-profit |
Other business model not based on direct preprinting charges or associated journal (acquisition and investment from Atypon, part of Wiley) |
Custom Authorea software, Proprietary software with some open source components |
No |
Any language |
Any scholarly content (including articles, datasets, code, figures, tables, slides, micropublications, and Jupyter Notebooks) |
PDF, Word doc, LaTeX |
Yes (HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, in process of becoming compliant, without stating on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors can choose among (1) Non exclusive, no reuse, (2) CC BY 4.0, (3) Public domain, and (4) MIT license |
Content scholarly in nature , Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
|
Before posting |
Staff + automated |
Same day |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Yes via JATSXML, available programmatically or manually (under Download button at top of document) |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Subject category, Full-text content, keywords |
SciLit, Crossref, Google Scholar, Europe PMC |
Content may be removed by operator/owner only |
We generally do not pre-screen, monitor, or edit the content posted by users of the Services. However, we have the right at our sole discretion to remove any content that, in our judgment, does not comply with the foregoing or is otherwise harmful, objectionable, or inaccurate. We are not responsible for any failure or delay in removing such content. - https://www.authorea.com/terms |
Tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
Wiley journals participating in the Under Review pilot |
Yes, listed at https://support.authorea.com/en-us/article/how-do-i-directly-submit-to-a-publisher-atxzf7/ |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Social media interactions (from individual platforms not Altmetric) |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Forking (copying an article that may or may not be authored by you), follow the article |
2021-03-29 (external content indexing only) |
| BioHackrXiv |
http://guide.biohackrxiv.org/about.html |
Preprints for BioHackathons |
All scientific fields |
2020-01 |
Center for Open Science controls and owns the infrastructure; Steering Board of volunteers run the platform |
Individual or community |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes, http://guide.biohackrxiv.org/moderation_board.html |
Unknown |
http://guide.biohackrxiv.org/moderation_process.html |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
CC-By Attribution 4.0 International, CC0 1.0 Universal, CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content) , Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest Data, code availability Preregistration availability All authors consent to posting |
|
|
Before posting |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Europe PMC |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
|
2021-03-29 (external content indexing only) |
| bioRxiv |
https://www.biorxiv.org/ |
...is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences... |
Broad life & biomedical research. Subject categories listed under Scope at https://www.biorxiv.org/about-biorxiv |
2013-11 |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Internal (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and external financial support (multiyear grant funding from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative) |
Highwire Preprint & BenchPress, Proprietary software with some open source components |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Research manuscripts only (primary research only). Types not accepted are: narrative reviews, datasets, theses, standalone figures, protocols, correspondence without new data or analyses. |
PDF, Word doc, WordPerfect |
Available (details at https://www.biorxiv.org/tdm) |
DOI, single DOI retained but new versions have distinct URLs |
Accepts new versions until acceptance at journal |
None as yet |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, or no reuse; with no preference for which license chosen |
Content within scope, Text overlap detection (plagiarism detection), Legal compliance, Potential for harm if posted |
Competing interests |
Data, code, or materials availability |
Plagiarism, non-scientific content, inappropriate article types, and material that could potentially endanger the public |
Before posting |
In-house screening team, volunteer Affiliates |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), Author affiliation(s), License type(s), Full-text content, References, Subject category |
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Meta, Europe PMC, SHARE, Crossref, PubMed (NIH-supported preprints only), Preprint Citation Index |
Permanent with withdrawal options and (rare) removal in exceptional circumstances |
Removal: Legal or biohazard reasons; Withdrawal: Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues, co-author(s) did not consent to posting |
Withdrawn articles remain visible but are clearly labelled as such; For removed articles, basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Available (details at https://www.biorxiv.org/about/FAQ) |
Comments on the page with the preprint, Email to bioRxiv helpdesk, twitter threads related to the preprint |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Yes, listed in the Direct transfer from bioRxiv to journals or peer review services (B2J) section at https://www.biorxiv.org/about-biorxiv |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, Social media interactions (from individual platforms not Altmetric), Number of comments and peer/automatic reviews (Disqus; Hypothesis if loaded; TRiP) |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Yes (pre-posting) |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts), Other: Channels, Evaluation Dashboard (Comments -Disqus-, Transparent Reviews in Preprints -TRiP-, Community Reviews, Automated Evaluations, Blogs/Media links, Videos, Tweets) |
2023-08-08 (external content indexing only) |
| BodoArxiv |
https://bodoarxiv.org/ |
Open Repository for Medieval Studies, Visit BodoArXiv.org to learn more. |
Relating to digital scholarship in Digitial Humanities and international and area studies |
2019-03 |
Center for Open Science controls and owns the infrastructure; Steering Board of volunteers run the platform |
Individual or community |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes, https://bodoarxiv.org/finance-and-governance/ |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
No license, CC-By Attribution 4.0 International, CC0 1.0 Universal |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content) , Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest Data, code availability Preregistration availability All authors consent to posting |
|
|
After posting |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
|
2020-10-27 |
| Cambridge Open Engage |
https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/public-dashboard |
The collaborative site to upload, share and advance your research |
All except clinical medicine |
2019-08 |
Cambridge Univeristy Press |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
Non-profit |
Run by Cambridge University Press, also run as a branded paid hosting service for organizations |
Cambridge Open Engage, closed source |
User research used to drive development |
English |
Working papers, posters, presentations |
PDF, PowerPoint |
No |
DOI, new DOI assigned per version |
Accepts new versions until acceptance at journal |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
All Rights Reserved, CC-BY 4.0, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0, CC-0 |
Content within scope, text overlap detection, legal compliance, ethical compliance, potential for harm if posted |
Competing interests, all authors consent to posting, article is a preprint (not a postprint), changelog |
Funder acknowledgement, clinical trial registration |
Personal data, dual use research, whether content is clinical in nature, metadata accuracy checks |
Before posting |
Staff and freelance team |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, identifier (e.g. DOI), publication date, author name(s), abstract, author affiliations, VOR link, license type, subject category |
Google Scholar, CrossRef |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Removal: legal or risk to readers. Withdrawal: ethical and legal issues, false or inaccurate content, co-authors did not consent to posting |
Tombstone page for removals, retraction notice and content remains for withdrawals |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author in dashboard, and we also add CrossRef match notifications once approved. |
Preservation on roadmap for future development |
Views, downloads, Altmetric, Citations, number of comments on platform |
Commenting feature on site |
Moderated after posting if reported by user |
|
2022-08-16 |
| Cell Sneak Peek |
https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/cell-press-sneak-peeks/ |
...is an author opt-in preview of the papers under review in [CellPress] primary research journals |
Subject-specific, including cancer; stem cell; neuron; cell development; biology; immunity |
Unknown |
Elsevier |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
For-profit |
Unknown |
Unknown, Unknown |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Unknown |
Content criteria as directed by associated journal(s) (Cell Press portfolio) |
PDF |
No |
URL only, Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown |
Content within scope and screening and quality completeness check. |
Unknown |
Unknown |
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
A few days |
No fee to author |
Reader can view basic metadata without account but must register to view and download full content |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Google Scholar, Crossref and Europe PMC |
Permanent with option for author requested take down in first 24 hours after posting |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Manuscripts must be submitted to a Cell Press Journal first, authors are then provided with the option of displaying their manuscript while under review using SSRN's First Look™ (aka Sneak Peek™) |
A Cell Press journal |
A Cell Press journal |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Views, Downloads |
Commenting |
Commenting |
Unknown |
2020-01-23 |
| ChemRxiv |
https://chemrxiv.org/ |
...is a free submission, distribution and archive service for unpublished preprints in chemistry and related areas |
Subject-specific, including biological and medicinal chemistry |
2017-08 |
American Chemical Society; German Chemical Society; Royal Society of Chemistry; Chinese Chemical Society; Chemistry Society of Japan |
Scientific society |
Non-profit |
Nothing to report from server |
Cambridge Open Engage, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Research manuscripts only |
PDF (supplementary material can be any file type) |
If provided by author in machine-readable format |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI suffix |
Accepts new versions until acceptance at journal |
Yes, compliant, without stating on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND |
Content within scope, Manuscript is complete, Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), Text overlap detection, Misconduct or integrity checks, All authors notified, Legal compliance, Originality, Potential for harm if posted |
Competing interests, ethics approval for research |
Funder information, version notes |
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Before posting |
Staff |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), License type(s), Subject category, Full-text content, References |
Google Scholar, Europe PMC, Chemical Abstracts Services, Crossref, PubMed (NIH-supported COVID preprints only), ProQuest, Scopus, Preprint Citation Index |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Yes |
Email administrator, or contact ethics departments of governing partners |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Yes, journals owned by American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, German Chemical Society, plus Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry (other publishers coming soon) |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication. Authors may also submit a link for posting |
Agreement to dark archive content with TIB (Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library) |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, Citations |
No |
n/a |
Unknown |
2023-08-08 (external content indexing only) |
| ChinaXiv |
http://chinaxiv.org/home.htm |
...is an open repository of Chinese scientific research papers in the field of natural sciences |
All scientific fields |
Unknown |
Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Nothing to report from server |
Java, SQL server, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Standard Chinese, English, unknown if other |
Research manuscripts only |
PDF, Word doc, LaTeX |
No |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Unknown |
No |
No |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC BY-NC-SA; with no preference for which license chosen |
Text overlap detection, Misconduct or integrity checks |
Unknown |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Subject category |
ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) |
Permanent with no removal options |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
None |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
Multiple, listed at http://chinaxiv.org/journal/browse.htm |
Not available |
Can be added by author or journal |
Long term preservation in local |
Views, Downloads |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts), News, Author Blacklist |
2020-01-23 |
| EarthArXiv |
https://eartharxiv.org/ |
A free preprint service for the Earth sciences |
Multiple scientific fields relating to earth sciences, not including life or biomedical sciences |
2017-10 |
Moved from Center for Open Science to California Digital Library on October 1, 2020 |
separate infrastructure and governance responsibilities |
Non-profit |
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Janeway open source publishing system https://janeway.systems/ |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Multiple article types (including research manuscripts, review papers, case studies, technical notes, dataset description papers) |
PDF |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, CC0 1.0 Universal, Academic Free License (AFL) 3.0, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1, with no preference for which license chosen |
Content within scope, Text overlap detection, Manuscript is complete (methods, references) |
Article is preprint/postprint |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Volunteers |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
Archived by the California Digital Library e-scholarhip initiatives (Merritt repository) |
Downloads |
Commenting |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2021-12-16 |
| EcoEvoRxiv |
https://ecoevorxiv.org/ |
A free preprint service for ecology, evolution and conservation |
Subject-specific, including ecology, evolution and conservation |
2018-11 |
Transparency in Ecology and Evolution |
Academic community group |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
All article types, datasets (primary and secondary research) |
PDF |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC BY Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, CC BY Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, CC0 1.0 Universal, CC BY Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, CC BY Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Text overlap detection, Misconduct or integrity checks, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Competing interests, Funder acknowledgement, Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
None |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| ECSarXiv |
https://www.electrochem.org/ecsarxiv/ |
a free preprint service for electrochemistry and solid state science and technology |
Multiple scientific fields relating to electrochemistry and solid state science and technology, not including life or biomedical sciences |
2018-05 |
The Electrochemical Society |
Scientific society |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Any scholarly content |
Unknown |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, CC0 1.0 Universal, CC BY Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, CC BY Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International; with no preference for which license chosen |
, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance, Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
None stated |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
None |
None |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| EdArXiv |
https://drive.google.com/a/g.ucla.edu/file/d/1vz0zkYoCc9TsbeBUU3rL5x_QYhqnZvfP/view?usp=sharing |
A Preprint Server For The Education Research Community |
Relating to education research |
2019-06 |
Center for Open Science controls and owns the infrastructure; Steering Board of volunteers run the platform |
Individual or community |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vz0zkYoCc9TsbeBUU3rL5x_QYhqnZvfP/view |
Any language |
Unknown |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
No license, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1, CC-By Attribution 4.0 International, Artistic License 2.0, CC0 1.0 Universal, BSD 3-Clause "New"/"Revised" License, BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License, Apache License 2.0, CC-By Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International, Academic Free License (AFL) 3.0, Eclipse Public License 1.0, Mozilla Public License 2.0, MIT License, GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0, GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0 |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content) , Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
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Before posting |
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Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
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2020-10-27 |
| EdArXiv* |
https://edarxiv.org/ |
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| elpub preprints* |
https://preprints.ru/ |
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| engrXiv |
https://engrxiv.org/ |
The open archive of engineering |
Multiple scientific fields relating to engineering, including biochemical and biomolecular engineering* |
2016-08 |
engrXiv |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language - English preferred, title and abstract must be in English, non-English translations can be submitted as versions |
Multiple article types (including research manuscripts, systematic reviews, data papers, methods papers) |
PDF, Word doc, LaTeX |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0 1.0 Universal, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, No license; with CC0 or CC BY preferred |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope , Legal compliance |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| ESSOAr |
https://www.essoar.org/ |
...is a community server established to accelerate the open discovery and dissemination of Earth and space science |
Relating to earth, environmental, and space sciences (subject-specific topics include biology, microbiology and public health) |
Unknown |
American Geophysical Union (AGU), Wiley |
Scientific society; Publishing organisation (publisher) |
Non-profit |
Internal financial support (investment from Wiley and AGU) |
Atypon/Literatum, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Scholarly content (including manuscripts and posters) |
PDF (Word and LaTeX in development) |
Yes |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI suffix |
Accepts new versions until acceptance at journal |
Yes, without stating on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND, non-exclusive license; with no preference stated |
Text overlap detection, Misconduct or integrity checks |
All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via Crossref |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Author affiliation(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), Funder acknowledgement(s), License type(s), Subject category, ORCID, Keywords |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Crossref |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Copyright infringement or other ethical or legal issues the Advisory Board deems critical |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
21 AGU publications (others in roadmap) |
Not yet (on roadmap) |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication; can be added by author or journal |
On roadmap: preprints to be permanently archived in Portico |
Downloads, Altmetrics |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts), Plaudit, QR code, bookmarks, reference management tools |
2020-01-23 |
| F1000 Research |
https://f1000research.com/ |
...is an Open Research publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias |
Broad life & biomedical research, including basic scientific, translational and clinical research within the life sciences and medicine |
Unknown |
F1000 Research Ltd |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
For-profit |
Nothing to report from server |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Any scholarly content (including articles, posters and slides; primary and secondary research) |
Word doc, RTF, LaTeX via Overleaf only |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, compliant, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), Text overlap detection, Misconduct or integrity checks, All authors notified, Authors meet criteria (https://f1000research.com/about/policies#aaa), Other: Originality |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration, Data availability statement |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 1 week |
Author fee applies (min $150; max $2000 US)* |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Article is a Faculty Review (yes/no), Referee (name, affiliation, report), Commenter (name, affiliation, comment text), Study type, Article type |
Google Scholar, Europe PMC, SHARE, SciLit, Prepubmed |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Restricted - manuscript can only be published in journal linked to server |
F1000 Research |
Not applicable |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, GScholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts), Link to Google Scholar citations |
2020-01-23 |
| FocUS Archive |
https://osf.io/preprints/focusarchive |
A free preprint service for the focused ultrasound research community |
Relating to ultrasound, including life sciences, medicine and health sciences |
2017-08 |
Focused Ultrasound Foundation |
Funding organisation (funder); Medical research organisation |
Non-profit |
Supported by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors must use CC BY Attribution 4.0 International license |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
None |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| Frenxiv |
https://frenxiv.org/ |
The French server for Preprints in all the scientific fields |
All scientific fields |
2018-01-01 |
Small group of enthusiasts |
Individual or community |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language (including Arabic, English, French, Indonesian) |
All article types, datasets, posters (primary and secondary research) |
PDF, Word doc, LaTeX |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0, BSD 3-Clause "New"/"Revised" License, BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, Artistic License 2.0, CC0 1.0 Universal, Apache License 2.0, Mozilla Public License 2.0, Academic Free License (AFL) 3.0, Eclipse Public License 1.0, MIT License, GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0, GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0, No license |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Competing interests, Funder acknowledgement, Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| Gates Open Research |
https://gatesopenresearch.org/ |
"...is a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by the Gates Foundation" |
Global health, global development, global growth and opportunity (any scope in which the foundation makes investments) |
2016 |
Gates Foundation |
Funding organisation (funder) |
For-profit |
Article processing charges, covered by funding agency |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English (articles); Accepts posters and slides in all languages - metadata and description must be in English |
All article types (primary and scecondary research), posters and slides |
Word doc, RTF |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, compliant, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), Text overlap detection, All authors notified, One author affiliated with Gates, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Data, code availability statement |
Unknown |
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At submission through VeriXiv |
F1000 editorial team |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author (APC between $150-$1500* paid by the Gates Foundation) |
No reader registration required |
Available for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Referee (name, affiliation, referee report), commenter (name, text, affiliation), study type, article type |
Google Scholar, Prepubmed, Europe PMC, SciLit |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Community moderation via commenting |
Restricted - manuscript can only be published in journal linked to server |
Gates Open Research |
n/a |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, link to Google Scholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Link to Google Scholar citations, Gateways |
2024-09-03 |
| HRB Open Research |
https://hrbopenresearch.org/ |
...is a platform for HRB-funded researchers to rapidly publish their research outputs in an open and accessible way |
Broad life & biomedical research, including exploratory, translational, biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, health services research |
Unknown |
Health Research Board Ireland |
Funding organisation (funder) |
Non-profit |
Article processing charges, covered by funding agency |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English (articles); Accepts posters and slides in all languages - metadata and description must be in English |
All article types (primary and scecondary research) |
Word doc, RTF |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, compliant, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), All authors notified, One author affiliated with HRB, Text overlap detection, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Data, code availability statement |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author (APC between €123-€818* paid by HRB) |
No reader registration required |
Available for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Referee (name, affiliation, referee report), commenter (name, text, affiliation), study type, article type |
Google Scholar, Prepubmed, Europe PMC, SciLit |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Community moderation via commenting |
Restricted - manuscript can only be published in journal linked to server |
HRB Open Research |
n/a |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, link to Google Scholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Link to Google Scholar citations, Blog |
2020-01-23 |
| IndiaRxiv |
https://ops.iihr.res.in/index.php/IndiaRxiv/index |
Preprint repository server for India |
Multidisclipinary |
2022-02 |
Open Access India |
Community |
Non-profit |
Hosting support by Society for Promotion of Horticulture |
Open Preprints Systems |
Yes |
English and all other Indian languages |
Original articles |
word, pdf, html |
Yes |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts improved new versions of existing |
Yes, compliant |
Yes |
Yes |
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
Content within scope, Manuscript is complete (methods, references), Data is available (if applicable) Code is available (if applicable), Text overlap detection (plagiarism detection), Misconduct or integrity checks (eg image duplication, statistics), All authors notified, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance, Originality, Potential for harm if posted |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Funder acknowledgement, Article is a preprint (not postprint) |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration, Data, code, or materials availability, Changelog, Article is a preprint (not postprint) |
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Before posting |
Volunteers |
week |
None |
No reader registration required |
Yes |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, License types(s), Journal currently submitted to |
Google Scholar |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Ethical & legal issues and Plagiarism |
None |
Withdrawal - prefixed to title |
Community moderation via commenting |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
Journal of Horticultural Sciences |
Journal of Horticultural Sciences |
Can be added by author |
LOCKSS/Internet Archive |
Downloads |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Moderated |
Onsite search |
2022-09-12 |
| JMIR Preprints |
https://preprints.jmir.org/ |
A preprint server for pre-publication/pre-peer-review preprints intended for community review as well as ahead-of-print (accepted) manuscripts |
Broad life & biomedical research |
Unknown |
JMIR Publications Inc |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown, Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Research manuscripts, blog posts, “grey†online reports |
Word doc |
No |
DOI, not applicable |
Accepts first submission only |
Unknown |
No |
Yes |
Authors must use no license (all rights reserved) |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
Author choice: No reader registration required, or reader can view basic content (title, abstract) without account but must register to view and download full content |
Unknown |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, License types(s), Journal currently submitted to |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
JMIR Publications journals |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Social media interactions (from individual platforms not Altmetric) |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| LawArXiv |
http://lawarxiv.info/ |
Legal Scholarship in the Open |
Relating to law, not including life or biomedical sciences |
2017-04 |
unknown - information not found online |
unknown |
Unknown - information not found online |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Unknown |
Unknown |
PDF, Word doc |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, CC0 1.0 Universal, No license; with no preference for which license chosen |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Unknown |
Unknown |
|
When alerted to concern |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), License type(s) |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
None stated |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
None |
None |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| LIS Scholarship Archive |
https://lissarchive.org/ |
A free, open scholarly platform for library and information science |
Relating to library and information sciences, not including life or biomedical sciences |
2017-07-01 |
Center for Open Science controls and owns the infrastructure; Steering Board of volunteers run the platform (https://lissarchive.org/faq/#support-lissa) |
Individual or community |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language |
Any scholarly content |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0 (public domain), CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND, No license (copyright holder and year), CC BY-SA, Academic Free License (AFL) 3.0, Artistic License 2.0, MIT License, Eclipse Public License 1.0, BSD 2-Clause; BSD 3-Clause, GNU LGPL 2.1, GNP LGPL 3.0, GNU GPL 2.0, GNU GPL 3.0, Apache License 2.0, Mozilla Public License; with no preference for which license chosen |
Misconduct or integrity checks, Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
|
After posting |
Unknown |
Same day |
Unknown |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
None |
None |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| MarXiv (no longer receiving submissions) |
https://zenodo.org/communities/marxiv?page=1&size=20 |
The free research repository for the ocean and marine-climate sciences |
Relating to ocean and marine climate sciences, including life sciences, social and behavioural sciences |
Originally on OSF in November 2017. Moved over to Zenodo permanently in early 2020. |
Open Communications for the Ocean (OCTO) |
Ocean conservation nonprofit |
Non-profit |
Our initial Packard grant ended in 2019. We haven't had funding since then, so we moved to Zenodo when OSF shut down our repository to new submissions because we couldn't pay. |
Zenodo, open source |
Not any more |
Any |
Any scholarly content |
PDF |
Maybe from Zenodo? |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC BY, CC BY-NC-ND, No License, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0, Eclipse Public License 1.0, CC BY-SA, with CC BY preferred |
We pretty much exclusively only get postprints or NGO reports, so we just make sure authors have the copyright clearance. |
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Nick checks to make sure things aren't spam or off-topic |
Afer submissions (anyone can submit a paper in Zenodo to the MarXiv Community in Zenodo) |
Nick Wehner |
Up to 24 hours usually |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall, Altmetric, OpenChannels.org |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
|
Downloads |
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2020-11-13 |
| MediarXiv |
https://mediarxiv.org/ |
Open Archive for Media, Film, and Communication Studies. Visit mediarxiv.com for more information. |
All scientific fields |
2019-02 |
Center for Open Science controls and owns the infrastructure; Steering Board of volunteers run the platform |
Individual or community |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes, includes researchers |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
No license, CC-By Attribution 4.0 International, CC0 1.0 Universal, CC-By Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International, CC-By Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content) , Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest Data, code availability Preregistration availability All authors consent to posting |
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Before posting |
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Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
None |
None |
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2020-10-27 |
| MedRxiv |
https://www.medrxiv.org/ |
...is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences |
Broad medical, clinical and related health sciences. Subject categories listed under Scope at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/about-medrxiv |
2019-06 |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), co-managed with Yale University and BMJ |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Supported by CSHL and a grant from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative |
Highwire Preprint & BenchPress, Proprietary software with some open source components |
Yes |
English |
Multiple article types (including research articles, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, clinical research design protocols, data articles; types not accepted are: case reports/series, narrative reviews, theses, hypothesis papers, rebuttals, opinion pieces, editorials, datasets, guidelines and policy statements) |
PDF, Word doc, WordPerfect |
Available (details at https://www.medrxiv.org/tdm) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts new versions until acceptance at journal |
None as yet |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-ND, or no reuse; with no preference for which license chosen |
Content within scope , Text overlap detection (plagiarism detection), Legal compliance , Ethical compliance , Potential for harm if posted |
Competing interests, Data availability statement, Funder acknowledgement, Ethical oversight, Consent, Clinical trial registration |
Data availability links, Clinical protocols links |
Ethical oversight details, consent statement, clinical/educational trial registration, excessive identifying information, plagiarism, non-scientific content, inappropriate article types, and material that could potentially endanger the health of individual patients or the public |
Before posting |
In-house screening team, volunteer Affiliates |
1-5 days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via Crossref |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), License type(s), Subject category, References |
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, Crossref, Europe PMC, PubMed (NIH-supported preprints only), Preprint Citation Index |
Permanent with withdrawal options and (rare) removal in exceptional circumstances |
Removal: Legal or biohazard reasons; Withdrawal: Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues, co-author(s) did not consent to posting |
Withdrawn articles remain visible but are clearly labelled as such; For removed articles, basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Available (details at https://www.medrxiv.org/about/FAQ) |
Comments on the page with the preprint, Email to medRxiv helpdesk, twitter threads related to the preprint |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Yes, listed in the Direct transfer from medRxiv to journals (M2J) section at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/about-medrxiv |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, Social media interactions (from individual platforms not Altmetric), Number of comments and peer/automatic reviews (Disqus; Hypothesis if loaded; TRiP) |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Yes (pre-posting) |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts), Other: Channels, Evaluation Dashboard (Comments -Disqus-, Transparent Reviews in Preprints -TRiP-, Community Reviews, Automated Evaluations, Blogs/Media links, Videos, Tweets) |
2023-08-08 (external content indexing only) |
| MetaArXiv |
https://osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/ |
An interdisciplinary archive of articles focused on improving research transparency and reproducibility ("MetaArXiv was originally called "BITSS Preprints" but rebranded to signal it was not just for BITSS-affiliated authors." Source: direct from server.) |
Relating to meta-science |
2017-03 |
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS), Centre for Effective Global Action, University of California, Berkeley |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Multiple types (including manuscripts, theses, conference proceedings, tutorials) |
PDF, Word doc, WordPerfect, LaTeX |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0 1.0 Universal, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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After posting |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS; Community moderation via commenting |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| MindRxiv |
https://mindrxiv.org/ |
Open archive for research on mind and contemplative practices |
Relating to mind and contemplative practices, including medicine and health sciences, neuroscience and neurobiology, psychology, social and behavioural sciences |
2017-07 |
Mind & Life Institute |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Research manuscripts only |
Any format supported by OSF platform (PDF preferred) |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, no license required; with CC0 preferred |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
Same day |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| MitoFit Preprint Archives |
https://www.bioblast.at/index.php/MitoFit_Preprint_Archives |
Open Access preprint server for mitochondrial physiology and bioenergetics |
Subject-specific, including mitochondrial physiology, bioenergetics, ergodynamics |
Unknown |
Oroboros Instruments |
Life sciences tech company |
Non-profit |
Other business model not based on direct preprinting charges or associated journal (maintained by MitoFit DOI Data Center) |
MediaWiki, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Any scholarly content (primary and secondary research) |
PDF (abstract to be submitted as Word doc) |
No |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI suffix |
Accepts new versions until acceptance at journal |
Yes, endorses, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY-NC-ND license |
Content within scope , Manuscript is complete (methods, references), Data is available (if applicable), All authors notified, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance, Potential for harm if posted |
Competing interests, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration |
Data availability statement |
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Before posting |
Staff |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via DataCite |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), License type(s), Subject category, ORCID if provided, language of publication, version of the manuscript |
Google Scholar |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, ethical and legal issues, no appropriate declaration of conflicts of interest |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Ar authors' request |
Community moderation via commenting |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
BEC |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Backup kept in secondary server |
None |
Disqus and hypothesis |
Moderated before posting |
None |
2020-01-23 |
| MNI Open Research |
https://mniopenresearch.org/ |
...is a platform for rapid publication and open peer review of research conducted by MNI (Montreal Neurological Institute) and Hospital researchers |
Subject-specific, including brain imaging, cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, neurological diseases/disorders |
Unknown |
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, McGill University |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Article processing charges, covered by funding agency (limited to one article per lab per year) |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
Not yet |
English (articles); Accepts posters and slides in all languages - metadata and description must be in English |
All article types (primary and scecondary research) |
Word doc, RTF |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, compliant, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), All authors notified, One author affiliated with MNI, Text overlap detection, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Data, code availability statement |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author (APC between £116-£775*^ paid by MNI) |
No reader registration required |
Available for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Referee (name, affiliation, referee report), commenter (name, text, affiliation), study type, article type |
Google Scholar, Prepubmed, Europe PMC, SciLit |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Community moderation via commenting |
Restricted - manuscript can only be published in journal linked to server |
MNI Open Research |
n/a |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, link to Google Scholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Link to Google Scholar citations |
2020-01-23 |
| NutriXiv |
https://osf.io/preprints/nutrixiv |
A free preprint service for the nutritional sciences |
Relating to nutritional sciences |
2017-08 |
Small group of enthusiasts |
Academic Institution |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors must use CC0 license |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
|
After posting |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| OSF Preprints |
https://osf.io/preprints/ |
OSF Preprints is a preprints discovery site, where you can search not only the preprints in all subjects hosted at OSF Preprints, but also preprints on partner sites such as arXiv, engrXiv, PsyArXiv and SocArXiv |
All scientific fields |
2016-08 |
Center for Open Science |
Charity |
Non-profit |
COS receive external financial support (e.g. grant, individual) |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language |
Multiple types (including research articles, posters, new data) |
PDF, Word doc |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, No license, with no preference for which license chosen |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), No moderation |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
|
When alerted to concern |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Only in legal or exceptional circumstances |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| PaleorXiv |
https://paleorxiv.org/ |
...is a free, open source and community-led digital archive for Paleontology research |
Relating to paleontology and paleobiology |
2017-08 |
Small group of enthusiasts |
Academic community group |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language - non-English languages held in moderation queue awaiting verification |
Multiple article types (including systematic reviews, data papers, methods papers) |
PDF, LaTeX, text |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Content within scope, Text overlap detection, Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
|
Before posting |
Unknown |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| PeerJ Preprints (no longer recieving submissions) |
https://peerj.com/preprints/ |
...is the 'pre-print' area of PeerJ |
Biological, medical and environmental sciences, matching scope to PeerJ journal (excludes Clinical Trials, diagnostic, therapeutic or health implications) |
Unknown |
PeerJ |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
For-profit |
Supported by associated journal publishing (PeerJ) |
Custom PeerJ Preprints software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Any scholarly content (primary and secondary research) |
PDF |
No |
DOI, each version receives its own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions until publication in a journal |
None |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, with CC BY preferred |
Misconduct or integrity checks, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Unknown |
Data availability statement |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 24 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via Crossref |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, Europe PMC |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
False or inaccurate content, additional reasons not stated |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
PeerJ journals |
Unknown |
Can be added by author or journal |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico and Europe PMC |
Views, Downloads, Social media interactions (from individual platforms not Altmetric), Comments |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts) |
2020-01-23 |
| PhilArchive* |
https://philarchive.org/ |
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| PhilSci-Archive |
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/ |
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Philosophy of Science |
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Infrastructure provided by University of Pittsburgh |
Academic institution / community group |
Non-profit |
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Content within scope |
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Openly available via API |
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Google Scholar |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
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No |
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| Preprints with The Lancet on SSRN |
https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/the-lancet/ |
...a place where journals and other research experts identify content of interest prior to publication...Authors have either opted in at submission to The Lancet family of journals to post their preprints on Preprints with The Lancet, or submitted directly via SSRN |
Broad medical, clinical and related health sciences |
Unknown |
Elsevier |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
For-profit |
Unknown |
Unknown, Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Content criteria as directed by associated journal(s) (Lancet family of journals) |
Unknown |
No |
URL only, not applicable |
Accepts first submission only |
Unknown |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown |
Content within scope and screening for ethics, funding, COIs and trial registration as well as potential for harm |
Competing interests, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 2 weeks |
No fee to author |
Reader can view basic content (title, abstract) without account but must register to view and download full content |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Google Scholar, Crossref and Europe PMC |
Permanent with withdrawal options for author /owner and (rare) removal in exceptional circumstances |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Manuscripts must be submitted to the Lancet family of journals (including EBioMedicine and EClinicalMedicine) first, authors are then provided with the option of displaying their manuscript while under review using SSRN's First Look™ |
The Lancet portfolio of titles: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalBrowse&journal_id=3184962 |
Not applicable |
Can be added by author or journal |
Unknown |
Views, Downloads |
Commenting |
Unknown |
Unknown |
2020-01-23 |
| Preprints.org |
https://www.preprints.org/ |
...is a multidisciplinary preprint platform that makes scientific manuscripts from all fields of research immediately available. |
All scientific fields |
2020-05 |
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
Non-profit |
Supported by associated journal publishing (MDPI) |
Custom software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English |
Multiple article types (including research manuscripts, comprehensive reviews, data articles, case reports; types not accepted are: editorials, discussion papers, commentaries, coursework) |
Word doc, LaTeX |
No |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
None as yet |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Content within scope, All authors notified, Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), Text overlap detection, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Unknown |
Data availability statement |
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Before posting |
Staff, volunteers |
Up to 24 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via Crossref |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s) |
Google Scholar, Prepubmed, Europe PMC, SHARE, SciLit, Preprint Citation Index |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues, misconduct |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page if DOI has been issued, otherwise no web presence retained |
no |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Not available |
Yes |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, Number of comments |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Moderated before posting |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts) |
2023-08-08 (external content indexing only) |
| PsyArXiv |
https://psyarxiv.com/ |
...is designed to facilitate rapid dissemination of psychological research |
Relating to psychology and psychological sciences |
2016-08 |
Society for the Improvement in Psychology Science (SIPS) |
Scientific society |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Unknown |
Any scholarly content |
PDF, Word doc |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, no license, with no preference stated |
Text overlap detection, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance, Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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After posting |
Unknown |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
APA: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, Psychological Methods, the Asian American Journal of Psychology, Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology of Popular Media Culture, and the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology., |
APA: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, Psychological Methods, the Asian American Journal of Psychology, Psychology and Neuroscience, Psychology of Popular Media Culture, and the Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology., |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| Research Square |
https://www.researchsquare.com/ |
...lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your paper prior to peer review in a journal |
All scientific fields |
Unknown |
Research Square |
Publishing services organisation |
For-profit |
Other business model not based on direct preprinting charges or associated journal publishing (publishing services by Research Square) |
Custom software, closed source |
Not yet |
English |
Multiple article types (including research articles, systematic reviews, method articles, data articles; types not accepted are: literature reviews, hypotheses, opinions, theories or commentaries) |
Word doc, LaTeX |
Yes (HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI |
Accepts any new versions |
None as yet |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Content within scope, Other: potential for harm if posted without peer review |
Competing interests, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Staff |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via Crossref |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, References, License type(s), Relational link to journal publication version (where it exists) |
Google Scholar, Crossref, Researcher-app, Europe PMC, PubMed (NIH-supported preprints only) |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
Submit directly or submit from BMC journals and more from Springer Nature portfolio listed at https://www.researchsquare.com/journals |
Not available |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, Comments, Citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Moderated after posting (if flagged) |
Onsite search, Email alerts with comments |
2023-08-08 (external content indexing only) |
| ResearchGate* |
https://www.researchgate.net/topic/Biology/publications?ft=all&rt%5B%5D=tp |
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| RIN arxiv (formerly INArxiv) |
https://rinarxiv.lipi.go.id |
A preprint server for Indonesian academia to provide an open, free and sustainable scientific repository |
All scientific fields |
5/21/2020 |
Indonesia open science team |
Academic community group |
Non-profit |
Completely free: supported by volunteers and hosted by gov't institution. We use Open Preprint System platform. |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English, Indonesian |
Accept: Preprints, postprints, essay, datasets. Not accepting: books, multimedia files, thesis. |
PDF, Word doc, LaTeX, MarkDown |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
persistent link (non DOI), support versioning with single link |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 3.0, BSD 3-Clause "New"/"Revised" License, BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License, GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) 2.1, CC BY Attribution 4.0 International, Artistic License 2.0, CC0 1.0 Universal, Apache License 2.0, Mozilla Public License 2.0, Academic Free License (AFL) 3.0, Eclipse Public License 1.0, MIT License, GNU General Public License (GPL) 3.0, GNU General Public License (GPL) 2.0, No license, with CC BY preferred |
Doc type, data availability |
Yes |
Unknown |
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After submission (pre moderation) |
Admins |
Up to three daya |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
In future development |
Downloads |
Will add Hypothes.is plug in in the future |
By admin |
Onsite search |
2020-10-26 |
| SciencepaperOnline |
www.paper.edu.cn |
Sciencepaper Online is an open repository and distribution service for scientific researcher |
All scientific fields |
2003-10 |
Center for Scientific Research and Development in High Education Institutes |
public institution |
Non-profit |
It is maintained by Center for Scientific Research and Development in High Education Institutes |
Custom software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Standard Chinese, English |
Research manuscripts |
Word doc, LaTeX |
No |
URL only, DOI is planned in development roadmap |
Accepts any new versions |
None as yet |
No |
No |
CC BY-NC |
Content within scope, Manuscript is complete (methods, references), Text overlap detection (plagiarism detection), Originality |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Funder acknowledgement |
Competing interests, Clinical trial registration, Data, code, or materials availability, Changelog, Article is a preprint (not postprint) |
Peer review could be provided after the preprints delivered on the platform |
Before posting |
Staff |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author |
Reader can view basic content (title, abstract) and download five full content without account |
Unknown |
Unknown |
OpenDOAR |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
None |
No |
None |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
Highlights of Sciencepaper Online (https://highlights.paper.edu.cn) |
None |
Can be added by author |
Long term preservation in local |
Views, Downloads |
Commenting |
before posting |
News, display of scholars |
2022-11-08 |
| SciELO Preprints |
https://preprints.scielo.org/ |
...a collection of non-peer-reviewed manuscripts within the SciELO Network of national and thematic collection of journals |
Multiple scientific fields including biological, health, human, applied social sciences* |
2020-04 |
SciELO and FAPESP Program |
Research infrastructure program |
Non-profit |
Internal financial support (SciELO Program) |
Open Preprints System, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English, Portuguese, Spanish |
Multiple article types (including research manuscripts, review papers, case studies, opinion papers, technical notes, dataset description papers) |
PDF |
No |
URL only, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts new versions of content until acceptance at journal |
Yes, endorses, without stating on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Content within scope
, Manuscript is complete (methods, references)
, All authors notified
, Legal compliance
, Ethical compliance
, Originality
, Potential for harm if posted |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Clinical trial registration |
Funder acknowledgement
, Data, code, or materials availability
, Changelog |
A manuscript will be automatically posted when the submitting author has at least three articles of any date or two recent articles of the last two years with active DOIs in the Crossref repository |
Before posting |
Automated, Staff, Volunteers |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s) |
Google Scholar, Crossref |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At authors' request, if properly justified |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None (SciELO journals that use OJS, soon) |
Available for any journal using a SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol-based manuscript submission platform |
Yes, added by platform |
All content is preserved using Archivematica |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, Social media interactions (via AddThis) |
Hypothesis |
No |
Onsite search, retrievable via SciELO.org network search |
2020-09-08 |
| SocArxiv |
https://socopen.org/ |
...open archive of the social sciences |
Relating to social sciences including social and behavioural sciences |
2016-08 |
SocArXiv, University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) |
Academic institution |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Unknown |
Research manuscripts only |
Any format supported by OSF platform |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, no license, with CC0 or CC BY preferred |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Only in legal or exceptional circumstances |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS feeds, email alerts) |
2020-01-23 |
| SportrXiv |
https://osf.io/preprints/sportrxiv |
...is the first community-led and open access subject repository dedicated to sport, exercise, performance, and health research |
Relating to sports and exercise science, including rehabilitation and therapy, theatre, dance, physiology, physiotherapy, psychology, sociology |
2017-08 |
Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology (STORK) |
Scientific society |
Non-profit |
Community operators pay a fee based on usage and COS subsidizes the other portion through fundraised support |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language - non-English languages held in moderation queue awaiting verification |
All article types (including research manuscripts, commentaries, review articles, current opinions, case studies, technical reports, short communications) |
PDF |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, with CC BY preferred |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), Content within scope |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Before posting |
Unknown |
A few days |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
At author's request with moderator approval |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| SSRN |
https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/ |
...is an open-access online preprint community providing valuable services to leading academic schools and government institutions |
Broad scope covering multiple scientific fields including applied sciences, health sciences, life sciences, physical sciences, humanities, social sciences, law and economics |
Unknown |
Elsevier |
Publishing organisation (publisher) |
For-profit |
Unknown |
Unknown, Unknown |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language - English preferred, title and abstract must be provided in English, non-English translations can be submitted and linked to English version |
Multiple types (including research manuscripts, abstracts, editorials, opinion papers) |
PDF |
No |
DOI, Unknown |
Accepts any new versions |
Unknown |
No |
No |
Unknown |
For all papers, quality completeness check, legal compliance and spam filtering and check of code and data links as well as author notifications. For medical papers, screening for ethics, funding, COIs and trial registration as well as potential for harm |
Unknown |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Unknown |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, References |
Google Scholar, Crossref, Europe PMC and PubMed (NIH-supported preprints only) |
Permanent with withdrawal options for author /owner and (rare) removal in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Not available |
Unknown |
Unknown |
Views, Downloads, Plum Metrics |
None |
None |
Plum metrics |
2023-08-08 (external content indexing only) |
| TechRxiv |
https://www.techrxiv.org |
Preprints for the electrical engineering and comouter science communities, sponsored by IEEE. |
Unpublished research in electrical engineering, computer science, and related technologies |
2019-10 |
IEEE |
Society |
Non-profit |
Supported by IEEE publications funding. |
TechRxiv is on the figshare (Digital Science) preprint framework. |
Advisory Board of IEEE members. |
English |
All, PDF Preferred for papers, supporting material filetypes supported. |
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Crossref DOI |
Versions are archived. |
Yes |
Yes, on landing page. |
No |
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Google, Google Scholar, Crossref |
By policy, all content is preserved. Removal will be considered only in extreme circumstances (legal issue), with DOI of removed article poining to DOI "tombstone" page |
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Planned but not implemented. |
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Revision Tracking. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn posting, email links. Citaiton formatter for 100s of journal styles. Link to Digital Science Altmetric score for Twitter posts. |
2020-12-03 |
| Therapoid |
https://therapoid.net/en/preprint/ |
an open web platform for scientific collaboration by Open Therapeutics |
Relating to pharmaceutical, medical device, and medical/health diagnostic technologies |
Unknown |
Open Therapeutics |
Life sciences tech company |
For-profit |
Unknown |
Custom software, Proprietary software with some open source components |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English - Chinese also to be supported in future |
Research manuscripts only (multimedia content accepted in associated discussion forum) |
PDF |
No (plan to require HTML in future) |
URL only, each version receives its own DOI |
Accepts any new versions |
None as yet |
No |
No |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Same day |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via Crossref |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Subject category, Other: anything else the author provides |
Not indexed |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
No web presence retained |
Unknown |
Not yet in place: expect community moderation via forum |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Not available yet (to be provided for any and only open access journals) |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
All content is preserved - no further information reported by server |
None as yet "metrics coming soon" |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts), "Blockchain technology being implemented" |
2020-01-23 |
| Thesis Commons (by OSF) |
https://thesiscommons.org/ |
An open archive of theses |
All scientific fields |
2017-08 |
Center for Open Science and small group of enthusiasts |
Academic community group; charity |
Non-profit |
COS receive external financial support (e.g. grant, individual) |
Open Science Framework, open source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language |
Theses only |
PDF, Word doc |
No (planned in development roadmap) |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes |
No |
No |
Authors are provided with a choice of licenses: CC0, CC BY, with no preference stated |
Akismet spam filtering (automatic on all OSF content), No moderation |
Conflict of Interest, Data, code availability, Preregistration availability, All authors consent to posting |
Unknown |
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When alerted to concern |
Unknown |
Unknown |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Relational link to final journal publication (e.g. in crossref metadata), License type(s), Subject category |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall |
Permanent with withdrawal option and some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Plagiarism, false or inaccurate content |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Only in legal or exceptional circumstances |
Email administrator; helpdesk support from COS |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
COS Preservation Fund to maintain read access for 50+ years |
Downloads |
Hypothesis |
Unknown |
Onsite search |
2020-01-23 |
| ViXra |
https://vixra.org/ |
An alternative archive...in Science and Mathematics serving the whole scientific community |
Multiple scientific fields, including biology* |
Unknown |
Small group of enthusiasts |
Individual or community |
Non-profit |
Sustainable low-cost web hosting service secured, previously run on donations |
Custom viXra software with services from formsite.com and disqus.com, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
Any language - English preferred, non-English translations can be provided with English version, as new versions or submitted separately |
Multiple types (including research articles, books, theses) |
PDF |
No |
Platform-specific ID, each version retains ID with a version number |
Accepts any new versions |
Mostly compliant, without endorsing, without stating on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors can use any license |
Text overlap detection, Misconduct or integrity checks, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Unknown |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 48 hours |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Unknown |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract |
Not indexed |
Content may be removed by author (or operator/owner) |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
No web presence retained |
Unknown |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
Not available |
Can be added by author or journal |
Long-term archiving provided by mirror site and cloud storage of database |
Views |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins), |
Unknown |
Alerts (e.g. RSS, email alerts) |
2020-01-23 |
| Wellcome Open Research |
https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/ |
A new way for Wellcome-funded researchers to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing |
Broad life & biomedical research, including basic scientific, translational and clinical research |
Unknown |
Wellcome Trust |
Funding organisation (funder) |
Non-profit |
Article processing charges, covered by funding agency |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
Yes (includes researchers) |
English (articles); Accepts posters and slides in all languages - metadata and description must be in English |
All article types (primary and scecondary research), editorials |
Word doc, RTF, LaTeX via Overleaf template |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, compliant, stated on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must use CC BY license |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), All authors notified, Author has Wellcome grant, Legal compliance, Ethical compliance |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration, Data, code availability statement |
Unknown |
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Unknown |
Unknown |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author (APC between £116-£775* paid by Wellcome) |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Referee (name, affiliation, referee report), commenter (name, text, affiliation), study type, article type |
Google Scholar, Prepubmed, Europe PMC, SciLit |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
Unknown |
Community moderation via commenting |
Restricted - manuscript can only be published in journal linked to server |
Wellcome Open Research |
n/a |
Yes, added by platform within one month of publication |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, link to Google Scholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Unknown |
Onsite search, Link to Google Scholar citations, Blog and gateways |
2020-01-23 |
| Zenodo |
https://zenodo.org/search?page=1&size=20&q=&subtype=preprint |
The world largest general-purpose research repository for the long-tail of science. |
All fields of research, for non-military purposes only. |
2013-08 |
CERN |
Intergovernmental organisation |
Non-profit |
Covered by grants (European Commission, Arcadia, Sloan) and internal funding. |
Fully open source. Based on Invenio Framework, moving to InvenioRDM in 2023. |
No not yet (plans in progress) |
Any language |
Any research output |
Any format |
Depends on submission format |
DOI per version |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, see https://about.zenodo.org/principles/ |
No, only on specific high visibility records. |
No |
Authors can use any license |
Content within scope, Potential for harm if posted, Legal compliance,
Ethical compliance |
None |
Funder acknowledgement
Data, code, or materials availability
Changelog |
Spam checks |
After posting |
Staff, Automated |
Immediate |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Openly available via API, OAI-PMH and DataCite APIs |
DataCite Metadata Schema |
Google Scholar, SHARE, Microsoft Academic, Unpaywall, OpenAIRE, DCI, Mendeley Data, Figshare |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, fraud, plagiarism, ethical and legal issues |
Tombstone page with reason for removal |
1-month grace period, afterwards needs justification according to "Reasons for removal". |
Helpdesk via support form |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author, or automatically detected by our citation tracking system using data from Crossref Event Data, Pubmed and NASA ADS. |
By the service. See https://about.zenodo.org/infrastructure/ |
Views, Downloads (according to COUNTER Code of Practice), Citations via open data sources. |
No |
N/A |
GitHub integration |
2022-08-18 |
| Jxiv |
https://jxiv.jst.go.jp/ |
Jxiv is the first full-fledged preprint server in Japan, which covers all research fields including natural sciences, humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary sciences written in either Japanese or English. |
All research fields including natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and interdisciplinary sciences |
2022-03 |
Japan Science and Technology Agency |
governmental organization |
Non-profit |
operated by government budget |
Open Preprint Systems, open source |
No |
English, Japanese |
Multiple article types (including original research articles, review articles, and overview articles). Journal articles or manuscripts incorporating peer review comments (if the authors have obtained permission from the journal). Translations (provided all requirements stated in the Jxiv Submission Guidelines are met). |
PDF, WORD, LaTeX |
No |
DOI, single DOI retained for all versions |
Accepts new versions. The preprints can be updated with the Journal articles or manuscripts incorporating peer review comments (if the authors have obtained permission from the journal). All versions are available and visible for readers. |
Yes, endorses, without stating on website |
Yes |
Yes |
Authors must select one of six Creative Commons licenses |
Manuscript is complete (methods, references), Text overlap detection (plagiarism detection), Legal compliance, Ethical compliance, Harm for Society |
Competing interests, All authors consent to posting, Changelog. |
Article is a preprint (not postprint) |
|
Before posting |
Staff |
up to 48 hours (workday) |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Available via API for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, VOR link, License type(s) |
Google Scholar, Google, Japan Link Center |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page with reason for removal |
At author's request with moderator approval and possibly by administrative decision. |
Email administrator |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
None |
None |
Can be added by author |
To be archived in a mirror site in the near future, no external preservation services used as yet |
Downloads |
No |
N/A |
Onsite search |
2024-09-26 |
| VeriXiv |
https://verixiv.org/ |
"Upholding research integrity whilst enabling the rapid availability of research by publishing verified preprints. Currently accepting research funded by the Gates Foundation." |
All fields of research with at least one author currently or previously funded by the Gates Foundation |
2024-08 |
Gates Foundation |
Funding organisation (funder) |
For-profit |
Costs covered by funding agency |
Custom F1000 software, closed source |
No but leverages Gates Open Research advisory board |
English |
Research articles, research notes, data notes, method articles, reviews, software tool articles, study protocols, registered reports, systematic reviews, correspondence, editorials, clinical practice articles, case reports, open letters, posters, slides, documents |
Word doc, RTF |
Yes (XML and HTML) |
DOI, each version receives its own DOI and own non-DOI citable identifier |
Accepts any new versions |
Yes, see https://verixiv.org/for-authors/data-guidelines/#fairdata |
Yes |
Yes |
CC-BY for articles, CC0 for data |
Data is available (if applicable), Code is available (if applicable), Text overlap detection (plagiarism detection), Misconduct or integrity checks (eg image duplication, statistics), Legal compliance, Ethical compliance, Originality; Gates grant number verification |
Competing interests, Funder acknowledgement, Clinical trial registration, Data, code, or materials availability |
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|
Before posting |
Staff |
Up to 1 week |
No fee to author |
No reader registration required |
Available for free upon request |
Title, Identifier (e.g. DOI), Publication/deposition date, Author name(s), Abstract, Author affiliation(s), Funder acknowledgement(s), Subject category, Full-text content, Institution, Competing interests, Referee (name, affiliation, referee report), commenter (name, text, affiliation), study type, article type |
Google Scholar |
Permanent with some removal options in exceptional circumstances |
Contravention of copyright, plagiarism, false or inaccurate content, ethical and legal issues |
Basic information remains on a tombstone page |
No |
Community moderation via commenting |
Unrestricted - manuscript can be published in any destination |
Gates Open Research |
Gates Open Research |
Unknown |
Preprints permanently archived in Portico |
Views, Downloads, Altmetrics, link to Google Scholar citations |
Commenting (including annotation plug-ins) |
Moderated |
Onsite search |
2024-09-03 |