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Preprint Resources on the Web

The term "preprint" usually refers to a manuscript that has gone through a peer-review process and is awaiting publication in a journal. Preprints accessible over the web may also be referred to as "e-prints".

ARC: A Cross Archive Search Services - an initiative of the Old Dominion University Digital Library Research Group

arXiv.org e-Print Server - an e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science and computer science maintained by Cornell University.

Astronomy and Astrophysics Preprints and Abstracts - links to international preprint servers

BBS Online Behavioural and brain sciences

Beta Preprint and Publication Server - electronic archive of preprints and publications for institutes participating in the Science and Technology Center of Amsterdam

BioMed Central - publishes peer reviewed research across all areas of biology and medicine. It is a commercial publishing house designed to complement Pubmed Central

CERN Document Server - High-energy physics. Covers preprints, books, periodicals, reports, photographs, and more.

Chemical Physics Preprint Database - and distribution server for the international theoretical chemistry community developed by the Department of Chemistry at Brown University and the Theoretical Chemistry and Molecular Physics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Chemistry Preprint Server - web archive and distribution medium for research articles in the field of chemistry developed by ChemWeb.com.

Clinical Medicine and Health Research NetPrints - repository of non-peer-reviewed research in clinical medicine and health sponsored by BMJ Publishing Group and began in 1999.

Cognitive Sciences (CogPrints) An electronic archive for papers in any area of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of information technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence, robotics, vision, learning, speech, neural networks), Philosophy Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as any other portions of the physical, social and mathematical sciences that are pertinent to the study of cognition.

Computation and Language E-Print Archive - electronic archive and distribution server for papers on computational linguistics, natural-language processing, speech processing and related fields. Offers also links to online conference proceedings

Computing Research Repository (CoRR)
This preprint server is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library.

Cryptology ePrint Archive - access to recent research in cryptology

Directory of Mathematics E-print and Preprint Servers American Mathematical Society - aims to provide current homepage URLs and email contacts of all preprint or e-print servers - produced by the American Mathematical Society.

Ecology PrePrint Registry - aim is to facilitate communication among ecologists by providing a mechanism for rapid dissemination of new research results that are destined to be submitted for publication - produced by Theoretical Ecology section of the Ecological Society of America and developed and hosted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.

EconWPA - working papers in economics - provided by the Economics Department of Washington University

European Research Papers Archive -

Fermilab Preprint Server Particle physics

Groundwater Protection and Restoration Group - University of Sheffield

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Astronomical preprints

Los Alamos E-Print Archive Physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences and computer science

MAREDOC - Marine Research Documents worldwide - provides lists of document sources, such as preprints, research reports

Mathematics Information Servers

MCMC Preprint Service Statistics

Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library
NCSTRL is an international collection of computer science research reports and papers made available for non-commercial use from a number of participating institutions and archives. For the most part, NCSTRL institutions are universities that grant PhDs in Computer Science or Engineering, with some industrial or government research laboratories. Other documents are contents of other document archives that participate in the NCSTRL technical infrastructure. Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library.

Open Archives Collection

Open Language Archives Community - international partnership of institutions and individuals who are creating a worldwide virtual library of language resources

PhilSci Archive - archive for preprints in the philosophy of science

PhysDoc - 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.

Princeton Observatory Preprints Astrophysics

Psychological Documents Online - University of Bonn

Public Policy E-Prints -

PubMed Central (general overview):
(see also the National Library of Medicine for announcements)

RePEc - Research Papers in Economics is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 41 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics

SPIRES HEP Literature Database - Search more than 500,000 high-energy physics related articles, including journal papers, preprints, e-prints, technical reports, conference papers and theses.

UCLA Statistics - archive of material on statistics

United States. Department of Energy - Searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines including biology & medicine. With a single query, users can search one or a selected set of existing preprint servers. The alerts feature allows users to create personal profiles to match their interests.

University College London Library: - Physics preprints

University of Virginia's Science and Engineering Libraries - web site maintains a list of electronic preprint servers and databases in various fields

The Virtual Technical Reports Center EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web.

Washington University Libraries: Biology full text sources