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General Lists of Open Access Eprint (full-text) Archives
Open Access Search EngineOAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
Searches for and retrieves open access/freely
available digital resources from 275+ institutions and organizations
around the world; BioMed Central, PubMed Central, National Academies
Press, and other open access and self-archiving repositiories are searched by this service.
American Mathematical
Society (AMS), Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers
http://www.ams.org/global-preprints/
- Umbrella servers, which cover all areas of mathematics, e.g.
- Front for the Mathematics ArXiv, alternative arXiv interface http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/
- MPRESS http://mathnet.preprints.org/MathNet.preprints
- Preprints by country, from Austria-Bavaria, France, Germany
- Special subject (disciplinary) servers (17 archives, covering maths, physics)
- Mathematics departments and institutes (institutional servers, 56 archives, international) (from OpCit Project)
arXiv
http://www.arXiv.org/
Main administration site at Cornell University, multiple mirrors
worldwide, manages access to over 230.000 papers, abstracts include
links to citation anlysis for the paper by SLAC Spires and Citebase
Astronomy
Preprints & Abstracts
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_preprint.html
Hosted by National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA,
linked list of sites, includes institutional preprint servers
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_preprint.html"
(from
OpCit
Project)
Bepress
http://www.bepress.com/index.html
Berkeley Electronic Press, which includes a freely available working
papers archive, in the fields of economics, law, and political
science. Bepress also publishes alternative journals, using locally
grown software to manage all aspects of production.
Biomed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central is an
independent commercial publishing house that provides open access to
biomedical research. BioMed Central publishes over 100 peer-reviewed
online journals, from the highly selective, general interest
Journal of Biology to a range of specialist online only
journals.
Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics
http://www.beje.decon.ufpe.br/
Provides access to the more recent issue and several back issues of
this publication of the Department of Economics at the Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco.
CERN Document
Server (CDS)
http://doc.cern.ch/cgi-bin/impact/search.pl
Searchable Web interface to over 550,000 bibliographic records,
including 220,000 fulltext documents in particle physics and related
areas, covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs ...
http://weblib.cern.ch/
Results include reference links (including journal links to
publisher site, abstract, summary only, not OpenURL) and cited by,
but cannot search or rank by citations
CDS services include:
- HEPDOC Search, alternative CERN service for quick searching
from HEP preprint servers:
http://weblib.cern.ch/share/hepdoc/ (with Mozilla browser
does not work fully, cannot search servers singly) covers these
servers
- CERN: Search for Articles & Preprints http://weblib.cern.ch/Home/Library_Catalogue/Articles_and_Preprints/
- DESY (=SLAC)
- KEK
- SLAC
- Document impact tool, frequency of fulltext document download on CDS, how many times files (fulltext documents) stored on the CDS are downloaded within a given period of time. (from OpCit Project)
Citeseer
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
(1998- , aka ResearchIndex), developed at NEC Research Institute,
NJ, USA, caches openly accessible full-text research papers on
computer science found on the Web in Postscript and PDF formats for
autonomous citation indexing, it is claimed to index over 500,000
papers.
CogPrints
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
An electronic archive for self-archived papers on cognition. Areas
included are:
psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer
science, philosophy, biology, medicine, and anthropology as well as
any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences
that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
http://www.acm.org/corr/
An open computer science repository, for preprints and papers that
are not published elsewhere.
D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/
A solely online journal with a focus on issues related to digital
libraries, including articles on new technologies, applications, and
social and economic issues.
DList, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (October 2002- ), managed by School of Information Resources and Library Science and Arizona Health Sciences Library, University of Arizona
Digital Information in the Information Research Field
http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html
Listing of sources of online information and research in the fields
of information management, information science, and information
systems. The site includes journals and newsletters which contain
at least a portion of free material.
The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC), Indiana University, contains a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, as well as full-text conference papers, dissertations, working papers and pre-prints. (The commons is a general term for shared resources in which each stakeholder has an equal interest. Studies on the commons include the information commons with issues about public knowledge, the public domain, open science, and the free exchange of ideas.)
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
This service lists free, full
text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals which
"use a funding model that does not charge readers or their
institutions for access." Some journals may require user
registration. Aims to cover all subjects and languages, with over
500 journals currently listed.
DOAJ: Political Science
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=47
Journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals that
pertain specifically to the field of political science.
ebizSearch
http://gunther.smeal.psu.edu/
Administered by the eBusiness Research Center at Pennsylvania State
University, based on Citeseer software, autonomously creates
citation indexes of e-commerce literature. The search engine crawls
Web sites of universities, commercial organizations, research
institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles,
working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles,
and published statistics and facts. Not all documents are stored by
eBizSearch, which performs a citation analysis of all articles
accessed.
Ecology
Preprint Registry
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu:8504/esa/ppr/ppr.Query
(papers from July 2001), hosted at the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, dissemination of new research
results destined for publication (i.e. not white papers or gray
literature), only preprints with a theoretical basis can be
submitted, the scope may be expanded to include submissions from the
entire discipline of ecology
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu:8504/esa/ppr/ppr.Query
Education-line (1997- ), a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice, initially a project in the JISC Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme, administered by the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, Great Britain..
E-LIS, E-Prints in Library and Information Science
E-Print
Network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
The Department of Energy's E-Print Network provides access to
electronic preprints in science and technology available from
diverse sites. The network is "a gateway to over 12,000 Web sites
and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied
sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such
as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear
sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information
technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE."
Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (papers from 1994), led by the chair of theoretical computer science and new applications at the University of Trier. Research reports, surveys and books in computational complexity.
eScholarship
Editions
http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/
Provides access to a growing
collection of digital texts and monographs, including more than
1,400 University of California Press titles. A significant number of the electronic books
are available for free to the public.
eScholarship Publications Publications from the eScholarship program, including monographs from the University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, journals and peer-reviewed series in the eScholarship Repository, experimental interactive publications like Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.
eScholarship Repository
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
This free, open-access
repository infrastructure supports the full range of scholarly
output, from pre-publication materials to journals and peer-reviewed
series.
Formations So far this is a collection of eprints on the arts, humanities and social sciences with a particular emphasis on media and communication studies. It is sponsored by the University of Ulster.
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
A web site collecting links to medical journals that offer their
contents online free of charge. In addition to linking to free
online medical journals, the site classifies them by the lag time
between print publication and free online access (no lag time, one
year, two years, etc.), and by language.
Highwire Press
free content
http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl
"Highwire Press is an
e-publishing company based at Stanford University which operates
many society e-journals, including a number of high-profile titles
including British Medical Journal and
Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science (free after 6 months)". Years of accessibility
vary with each title.
History and Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive (HTP Prints)
http://htpprints.yorku.ca/
An archive of online papers in psychology and the history of
psychology. In addition to journal articles, this resource
archives papers that are not suited to traditional journals in the field, e.g. conference papers,
highly illustrated papers, longer essays, literature reviews, papers
with a highly specific focus.
History Cooperative
http://www.historycooperative.org/
Provides full text access to recent issues of several top history
journals.
Information Bridge
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
Provided by US Department of Energy (DOE), has open source to
full-text and bibliographic records of DOE research and development
reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental
sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information
science, renewable energy, and other topics. Contains full-text
documents produced and made available by the DOE National
Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward.
National Academy Press (NAP)
http://books.nap.edu/
The publishing arm of the national academies, i.e. National Academy
of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine,
and National Research Council. It publishes all its books digitally
on the web, free of charge.
NTRS,
NASA Technical Reports Server
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
Search interface for 18 databases
|
Open
Language Archives Community (OLAC) http://www.language-archives.org/index.html Creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources, 21 participating archives, three service providers including OLAC Aggregator, Swahili Language Resources, and a virtual service provider. Open Language Archives are repositories of language data, documentation and description, including texts, recordings, dictionaries, grammars and field notes, where there is an intent to make the materials openly available, includes any such repository which has an accessible digital component, even if it is just an online catalog or a few digital holdings (use of "open" is inspired by OAI). Less an eprint archive, more a preservation and rescue service for language resources. (from OpCit Project) |
Perspectives in Electronic Publishing (PeP)
http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pep.nsf
Access journal articles on electronic publishing.
PhilSci Archive
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
An electronic archive for preprints of articles in the philosophy
of science.
PhysDoc -
Physics Documents Worldwide
http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/physdoc.html
Offers lists of links to document sources, such as preprints,
research reports, annual reports, and list of publications of
worldwide distributed physics institutions and individual
physicists, ordered by continent, country and town.
Psycoloquy
http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Articles and peer commentary in all areas of psychology as well as
cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioral biology, artificial
intelligence, robotics/vision, linguistics and philosophy (Eprints.org
archive).
Public Library of Science - Biology
http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html
PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed open-access journal published
monthly by the Public Library of Science.
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/index.html
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
The Review of Network Economics
http://www.rnejournal.com/
An electronic, peer-reviewed journal publishing papers on the
economics of network industries.
ScienceDirect - a sampling of full-text free journal articles from Elsevier.
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
http://www.scielo.br/
Provides access to a collection of Brazilian journals in science
and medicine, as well as links to individual articles and reports.
Some articles are solely in Spanish or Portugese.
TheScientificWorld
http://www.thescientificworld.com/
An online archive of research articles in many scientific fields,
with a search engine for obtaining results on specific topics. Some
free access is available to articles but many require payment.
SPARC-Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=c0
American Research Libraries initiative to support reforms to
scholarly publishing and reducing price barriers. Partners include:
Directory of Open Access Journals; American Chemical Society; BioMed
Central; eScholarship and many more.
Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://www.ssrn.com/
Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., working papers and
abstracts are provided by journals, publishers, and institutions for
distribution through SSRN's eLibrary, which consists of two parts: a
database containing abstracts on over 49,200 scholarly working
papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection
containing over 30,800 (27 March 2003) downloadable full-text
documents. SSRN is composed of specialized research
networks/journals in the social sciences: Accounting, Economics,
Financial Economics, Legal Scholarship, Management, Negotiations.
University of Virginia Science and Engineering Libraries, Preprint
Servers and Databases
http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/science/guides/s-preprn.htm
Pointers to a variety of electronic pre-print sources in all areas
of science and engineering (from
OpCit
Project)
Working Papers in Economics (WoPEc)
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc.html
A collection of links to working papers and articles in economics.
Many are free but some have restricted access.
WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Electronic Journals and Newsletters
http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/journals.htm
Collection of publications dealing at least to some extent with
sociology. Some free full text journals mixed in with abstract
listings and subscription journals.
Subject Directory of Open Access Sites
All Topics |
Agriculture |
Business |
Computer Science |
Economics | Education
| History
| Information Science |
Language
|
Law | Mathematics | Medicine |
Political Science |
Psychology | Science
| Sociology
Directory of Open Access Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
This service lists free, full
text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals which
"use a funding model that does not charge readers or their
institutions for access." Some journals may require user
registration. Aims to cover all subjects and languages, with over
500 journals currently listed.
eScholarship
Editions
http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/
Provides access to a growing
collection of digital texts and monographs, including more than
1,400 University of California Press titles. A significant number of the electronic books
are available for free to the public.
eScholarship Publications Publications from the eScholarship program, including monographs from the University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, journals and peer-reviewed series in the eScholarship Repository, experimental interactive publications like Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative.
eScholarship Repository
http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/
This free, open-access
repository infrastructure supports the full range of scholarly
output, from pre-publication materials to journals and peer-reviewed
series.
Formations So far this is a collection of eprints on the arts, humanities and social sciences with a particular emphasis on media and communication studies. It is sponsored by the University of Ulster.
National Academy Press (NAP)
http://books.nap.edu/
The publishing arm of the national academies, i.e. National Academy
of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine,
and National Research Council. It publishes all its books digitally
on the web, free of charge.
OAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
Searches for and retrieves open access/freely
available digital resources from 275+ institutions and organizations
around the world; BioMed Central, PubMed Central, National Academies
Press, and other open access and self-archiving repositiories are searched by this service.
Organic Eprints (September 2002- ), established by the Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF), open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture.
ScienceDirect - a sampling of full-text free journal articles from Elsevier.
ebizSearch
http://gunther.smeal.psu.edu/
Administered by the eBusiness Research Center at Pennsylvania State
University, based on Citeseer software, autonomously creates
citation indexes of e-commerce literature. The search engine crawls
Web sites of universities, commercial organizations, research
institutes and government departments to retrieve academic articles,
working papers, white papers, consulting reports, magazine articles,
and published statistics and facts. Not all documents are stored by
eBizSearch, which performs a citation analysis of all articles
accessed.
Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://www.ssrn.com/
Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., working papers and
abstracts are provided by journals, publishers, and institutions for
distribution through SSRN's eLibrary, which consists of two parts: a
database containing abstracts on over 49,200 scholarly working
papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection
containing over 30,800 (27 March 2003) downloadable full-text
documents. SSRN is composed of specialized research
networks/journals in the social sciences: Accounting, Economics,
Financial Economics, Legal Scholarship, Management, Negotiations.
Citeseer
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/cs
(1998- , aka ResearchIndex), developed at NEC Research Institute,
NJ, USA, caches openly accessible full-text research papers on
computer science found on the Web in Postscript and PDF formats for
autonomous citation indexing, it is claimed to index over 500,000
papers.
Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
http://www.acm.org/corr/
An open computer science repository, for preprints and papers that
are not published elsewhere.
Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity (papers from 1994), led by the chair of theoretical computer science and new applications at the University of Trier. Research reports, surveys and books in computational complexity.
Bepress
http://www.bepress.com/index.html
Berkeley Electronic Press, which includes a freely available working
papers archive, in the fields of economics, law, and political
science. Bepress also publishes alternative journals, using locally
grown software to manage all aspects of production.
Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics
http://www.beje.decon.ufpe.br/
Provides access to the more recent issue and several back issues of
this publication of the Department of Economics at the Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco.
The Review of Network Economics
http://www.rnejournal.com/
An electronic, peer-reviewed journal publishing papers on the
economics of network industries.
Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://www.ssrn.com/
Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., working papers and
abstracts are provided by journals, publishers, and institutions for
distribution through SSRN's eLibrary, which consists of two parts: a
database containing abstracts on over 49,200 scholarly working
papers and forthcoming papers, and an Electronic Paper Collection
containing over 30,800 (27 March 2003) downloadable full-text
documents. SSRN is composed of specialized research
networks/journals in the social sciences: Accounting, Economics,
Financial Economics, Legal Scholarship, Management, Negotiations.
Working Papers in Economics (WoPEc)
http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc.html
A collection of links to working papers and articles in economics.
Many are free but some have restricted access.
Education-line (1997- ), a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice, initially a project in the JISC Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme, administered by the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds, Great Britain.
History Cooperative
http://www.historycooperative.org/
Provides full text access to recent issues of several top history
journals.
D-Lib Magazine
http://www.dlib.org/
A solely online journal with a focus on issues related to digital
libraries, including articles on new technologies, applications, and
social and economic issues.
DList, Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (October 2002- ), managed by School of Information Resources and Library Science and Arizona Health Sciences Library, University of Arizona.
Digital Information in the Information Research Field
http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html
Listing of sources of online information and research in the fields
of information management, information science, and information
systems. The site includes journals and newsletters which contain
at least a portion of free material.
E-LIS, E-Prints in Library and Information Science
Perspectives in Electronic Publishing (PeP)
http://aims.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pep.nsf
Access journal articles on electronic publishing.
Open Language
Archives Community (OLAC)
http://www.language-archives.org/index.html
Creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources, 21
participating archives, three service providers including OLAC
Aggregator, Swahili Language Resources, and a virtual service
provider. Open Language Archives are repositories of language data,
documentation and description, including texts, recordings,
dictionaries, grammars and field notes, where there is an intent to
make the materials openly available, includes any such repository
which has an accessible digital component, even if it is just an
online catalog or a few digital holdings (use of "open" is inspired
by OAI). Less an eprint archive, more a preservation and rescue
service for language resources.
(from
OpCit
Project)
Bepress
http://www.bepress.com/index.html
Berkeley Electronic Press, which includes a freely available working
papers archive, in the fields of economics, law, and political
science. Bepress also publishes alternative journals, using locally
grown software to manage all aspects of production.
American Mathematical
Society (AMS), Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers
http://www.ams.org/global-preprints/
- Umbrella servers, which cover all areas of mathematics, e.g.
- Front for the Mathematics ArXiv, alternative arXiv interface http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/
- MPRESS http://mathnet.preprints.org//MathNet.preprints
- Preprints by country, from Austria-Bavaria, France, Germany
- Special subject (disciplinary) servers (17 archives, covering maths, physics)
- Mathematics departments and institutes (institutional servers, 56 archives, international) (from OpCit Project)
Biomed Central
http://www.biomedcentral.com/
BioMed Central is an
independent commercial publishing house that provides open access to
biomedical research. BioMed Central publishes over 100 peer-reviewed
online journals, from the highly selective, general interest Journal
of Biology to a range of specialist online only journals.
Free Medical Journals
http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
A web site collecting links to medical journals that offer their
contents online free of charge. In addition to linking to free
online medical journals, the site classifies them by the lag time
between print publication and free online access (no lag time, one
year, two years, etc.), and by language.
PubMed
Central
http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/index.html
PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free
digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
ScienceDirect - a sampling of full-text free journal articles from Elsevier.
Bepress
http://www.bepress.com/index.html
Berkeley Electronic Press, which includes a freely available working
papers archive, in the fields of economics, law, and political
science. Bepress also publishes alternative journals, using locally
grown software to manage all aspects of production.
DOAJ: Political Science
http://www.doaj.org/ljbs?cpid=47
Journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals that
pertain specifically to the field of political science.
CogPrints
http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
An electronic archive for self-archived papers on cognition. Areas
included are:
psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer
science, philosophy, biology, medicine, and anthropology as well as
any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences
that are pertinent to the study of cognition.
History and Theory of Psychology Eprint Archive (HTP Prints)
http://htpprints.yorku.ca/
An archive of online papers in psychology and the history of
psychology. In addition to journal articles, this resource
archives papers that are not suited to traditional journals in the field, e.g. conference papers,
highly illustrated papers, longer essays, literature reviews, papers
with a highly specific focus.
Psycoloquy
http://psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Articles and peer commentary in all areas of psychology as well as
cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioral biology, artificial
intelligence, robotics/vision, linguistics and philosophy (Eprints.org
archive).
arXiv
http://www.arXiv.org/
Main administration site at Cornell University, multiple mirrors
worldwide, manages access to over 230.000 papers, abstracts include
links to citation anlysis for the paper by SLAC Spires and Citebase
Astronomy
Preprints & Abstracts
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_preprint.html
Hosted by National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA,
linked list of sites, includes institutional preprint servers
http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_preprint.html"
(from
OpCit
Project)
CERN Document
Server (CDS)
http://doc.cern.ch/cgi-bin/impact/search.pl
Searchable Web interface to over 550,000 bibliographic records,
including 220,000 fulltext documents in particle physics and related
areas, covers preprints, articles, books, journals, photographs ...
http://weblib.cern.ch/
Results include reference links (including journal links to
publisher site, abstract, summary only, not OpenURL) and cited by,
but cannot search or rank by citations
CDS services include:
- HEPDOC Search, alternative CERN service for quick searching
from HEP preprint servers:
http://weblib.cern.ch/share/hepdoc/ (with Mozilla browser
does not work fully, cannot search servers singly) covers these
servers
- CERN: Search for Articles & Preprints http://weblib.cern.ch/Home/Library_Catalogue/Articles_and_Preprints/
- DESY (=SLAC)
- KEK
- SLAC
- Document impact tool, frequency of fulltext document download on CDS, how many times files (fulltext documents) stored on the CDS are downloaded within a given period of time. (from OpCit Project)
Ecology
Preprint Registry
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu:8504/esa/ppr/ppr.Query
(papers from July 2001), hosted at the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, dissemination of new research
results destined for publication (i.e. not white papers or gray
literature), only preprints with a theoretical basis can be
submitted, the scope may be expanded to include submissions from the
entire discipline of ecology
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu:8504/esa/ppr/ppr.Query
E-Print
Network
http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
The Department of Energy's E-Print Network provides access to
electronic preprints in science and technology available from
diverse sites. The network is "a gateway to over 12,000 Web sites
and databases worldwide, containing e-prints in basic and applied
sciences, primarily in physics but also including subject areas such
as chemistry, biology and life sciences, materials science, nuclear
sciences and engineering, energy research, computer and information
technologies, and other disciplines of interest to DOE."
Highwire Press
free content
http://www.highwire.org/lists/freeart.dtl
"Highwire Press is an
e-publishing company based at Stanford University which operates
many society e-journals, including a number of high-profile titles
including British Medical Journal and
Proceedings of the National Academy
of Science (free after 6 months)". Years of accessibility
vary with each title.
Information Bridge
http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
Provided by US Department of Energy (DOE), has open source to
full-text and bibliographic records of DOE research and development
reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental
sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information
science, renewable energy, and other topics. Contains full-text
documents produced and made available by the DOE National
Laboratories and grantees from 1995 forward.
NTRS, NASA
Technical Reports Server
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
Search interface for 18 databases
PhilSci Archive
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
An electronic archive for preprints of articles in the philosophy
of science.
PhysDoc -
Physics Documents Worldwide
http://de.physnet.net/PhysNet/physdoc.html
Offers lists of links to document sources, such as preprints,
research reports, annual reports, and list of publications of
worldwide distributed physics institutions and individual
physicists, ordered by continent, country and town.
Public Library of Science - Biology
http://www.plosbiology.org/plosonline/?request=index-html
PLoS Biology is a peer-reviewed open-access journal published
monthly by the Public Library of Science.
ScienceDirect - a sampling of full-text free journal articles from Elsevier.
Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO)
http://www.scielo.br/
Provides access to a collection of Brazilian journals in science
and medicine, as well as links to individual articles and reports.
Some articles are solely in Spanish or Portugese.
TheScientificWorld
http://www.thescientificworld.com/
An online archive of research articles in many scientific fields,
with a search engine for obtaining results on specific topics. Some
free access is available to articles but many require payment.
SPARC-Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
http://www.arl.org/sparc/core/index.asp?page=c0
American Research Libraries initiative to support reforms to
scholarly publishing and reducing price barriers. Partners include:
Directory of Open Access Journals; American Chemical Society; BioMed
Central; eScholarship and many more.
University of Virginia Science and Engineering Libraries, Preprint
Servers and Databases
http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/science/guides/s-preprn.htm
Pointers to a variety of electronic pre-print sources in all areas
of science and engineering (from
OpCit
Project)
WWW Virtual Library: Sociology Electronic Journals and Newsletters
http://www.mcmaster.ca/socscidocs/w3virtsoclib/journals.htm
Collection of publications dealing at least to some extent with
sociology. Some free full text journals mixed in with abstract
listings and subscription journals.
General Lists of Open Access Eprint (full-text) Archives (from OpCit Project)
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Open Directory Project, Free Access Online Archives http://dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Archives/Free_Access_Online_Archives/ Electronic Archives "providing free and unrestricted access to peer reviewed scientific papers and academic publications" (from OpCit Project) http://dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Archives/Free_Access_Online_Archives/
Tardis
University of Maryland Libraries, Virtual Technical Reports
Center: EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web |
Many thanks to the OpCit Project's Core Metalist of Open Access Eprint Archives for its many contributions to this list.
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