Selected Internet Resources
Eprints: Quick Guide to Open-Access Archives
in Science, Technology & Medicine

"Open access eprint archives are where authors of published research papers and papers destined for peer reviewed publication can self-archive the full texts of their work for all to see." -- OpCit Project

Lists of Archives

E-Print Network
   Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information
   http://www.osti.gov/eprints/

Highwire Press
   The largest archive of free full-text science on Earth!
   http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl
   Stanford University

OAIster
   Freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources
   http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
   University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service

OpCit Project: The Open Citation Project
   Core Metalist of Open Access Eprint Archives
   http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml

Open Directory Project
   Free online access archives in science.
   http://dmoz.org/Science/Publications/Archives/Free_Access_Online_Archives/

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Subject Discipline Archives

arXiv
   Open access to 300K+ e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer science and quantitative biology.
   http://mentor.lanl.gov/
   Cornell University & the National Science Foundation

Astronomy & Astrophysics Preprints & Abstracts
   http://www.vilspa.esa.es/astroweb/yp_preprint.html
   AstroWeb Consortium

Astrophysics Data System Article Service
   Free and unrestricted access to scanned images of journals, conference proceedings and books in astronomy and astrophysics.
   http://adswww.harvard.edu/ads_articles.html
   Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

The Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS)
   http://www.bbsonline.org/

BioMed Central
   Publisher of more than 150 peer-reviewed open access journals.
   http://www.biomedcentral.com/
   Independent publishing house

CERN Document Server
   Articles and preprints.
   http://cdsweb.cern.ch
   European Organization for Nuclear Research

Chemistry, Math and Computer Science Preprint Archives
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/preprintarchive
   Elsevier: ScienceDirect

CiteSeer
   Scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
   http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/

Clinical Medicine and Health Research
   A repository of non-peer reviewed original research, now closed to new submissions.
   http://clinmed.netprints.org/home.dtl

CogPrints
   Electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and many areas of computer science.
   http://cogprints.org/

Cryptology ePrint Archive
   http://eprint.iacr.org/index.html
   International Association for Cryptologic Research

DOE Information Bridge
   Free public access to full-text documents and bibliographic citations of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature.
   http://www.osti.gov/bridge/

High-Energy Physics Literature Database (HEP)
   http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/index.shtml/hep
   Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

IISc
   Open access repository of IISc research publications.
   http://eprints.iisc.ernet.in/index.html
   Indian Institute of Science.

Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive mp_arc
   http://rene.ma.utexas.edu/mp_arc/
   University of Texas

MPRESS/MathNet.preprints
   http://MathNet.preprints.org

Organic eprints
   Open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture.
   http://orgprints.org/
   Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF)

PubMed Central
   Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
   http://pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
   National Institutes of Health