Disciplinary repositories

From OAD

• This is a list of OA disciplinary respositories. Unless otherwise noted, they accept relevant deposits regardless of the author's institutional affiliation.

• If a repository only accepts submissions in certain languages, please indicate the languages.

• For a bibliography of works on disciplinary repositories, see the section on Disciplinary Archives in the OAD Bibliography of open access.

• Related lists in OAD: Data repositories.

• Alphabetical by field.

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Contents 1 Agriculture 2 Anthropology 3 Archaeology 4 Arts 5 Art history 6 Biology / Life sciences 7 Business 8 Classics 9 Cognitive science 10 Communication 11 Computer science 12 Cultural studies 13 Cryptology 14 Development 15 Digital preservation 16 Earth science 17 Economics 18 Education 19 Environmental science 20 German Literature and Language 21 Humanities in general 22 Law 23 Library and information science 24 Linguistics 25 Literature 26 Marine science 27 Mathematics 28 Medicine 29 Meteorology 30 Multidisciplinary repositories 31 Philanthropy 32 Philosophy 33 Physics 34 Psychology 35 Public policy research 36 Regional studies 37 Social sciences in general

Agriculture

• AgEcon Search. Research in agriculture and applied economics. From the University of Minnesota. (Also listed under Economics.)

• Organic Eprints. All languages. From the Danish Research Centre for Organic Farming (DARCOF).

Anthropology

• Mana'o Project. "An experimental open access anthropology repository" at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. No longer online; see this explanation.

Archaeology

• Open Archaeology Collection. "An open collection for teaching an Intro to Archaeology course" From the University of California, Berkeley and Open Knowledge and the Public Interest

Arts

• Kultur. From JISC and other partners.

Art history

• ART-Dok. German, English, French etc.

Biology / Life sciences

• Also see medicine.

• Nature Precedings. Documents in bioinformatics, genetics, molecular cell biology, neuroscience, ecology, and several other subjects.

• Threatened and Endangered Species Document Repository. From the US Department of Defense (DoD), and limited to research on threatened and endangered species on the 30 million acres of land under DoD stewardship.

• Plazi. On taxonomic research. From Plazi.

Business

• Corporate Governance Network. From SSRN.

Classics

• Also see literature.

• Classics Research Network. From SSRN.

• PropylaeumDOK. German, English etc. Fields: Egyptology, ancient history, classical archaeology, classical philology, prehistoric archaeology.

Cognitive science

• Cognitive Science Network. From SSRN.

• Cogprints. English.

Communication

• UNIVERCIENCIA. "Open Access Portal of Journals in Communication Science." From CEDUS - Research Group in User Centered Design from School of Communication and Arts at University of São Paulo.

Computer science

• Also see mathematics.

• CiteSeer^x. Successor to CiteSeer. From Lee Giles. (The original CiteSeer was from Giles, Steve Lawrence, and Kurt Bollacker.)

• Computing Research Repository. From the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), arXiv, Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library (NCSTRL), and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

• Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. An OA repository for refereed conference proceedings.

• io-port.net. From the FIZ Karlsruhe, the Gesellschaft für Informatik, and the University of Trier.

Cultural studies

• CSeARCH. Cultural Studies e-Archive.

Cryptology

• Cryptology eprint Archive. English.

Development

• R4D (Research for Development). From the UK Department for International Development.

Digital preservation

• ERPAePRINTS. All languages.

Earth science

• Earth Prints. All languages. Fields: Atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, solid Earth, Earth sciences in general.

• GEO-LEO. English, German, etc., but only publications from the German speaking area.

Economics

• AgEcon Search. Research in agriculture and applied economics. From the University of Minnesota. (Also listed under Agriculture.)

• Munich RePEc Personal Archive. All languages. "The topic should relate to economics, including the contiguous historical, social, and behavioral sciences and statistical as well as mathematical methods related to economics."

Education

• African Higher Education Research Online. English. African Higher Education Research Online (AHERO) is an open access archive of texts that focus on the study, practice and governance of higher education in Africa.

• HEER (Higher Education Empirical Research). From the Open University Centre for Higher Education Research and Information (CHERI). Only CHERI-written summaries of the original research papers are OA through HEER.

• OER Research. A repository for research on open educational resources (OERs). Accepts submissions "in just about every language" (Personal Mail, November 8, 2008). From IssueLab and the Hewlett Foundation.

• pedocs. German, English.

• TeLearn. Multilingual. TeLearn is a multidisciplinary and multilingual open archive on technology enhanced learning (TEL). It was launched late 2006 by the Kaleidoscope European Network of Excellence (EC funded project of the 6th R&D framework programme).

Environmental science

• CEDA Repository. From the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA).

• GreenFILE. From EBSCO. Some texts are scholarly and some are not. Some are just OA abstracts and some are OA full-texts.

German Literature and Language

• GiNDok

Humanities in general

• Hprints. All languages. A division of HAL focusing on the humanities.

• HAL-SHS. All languages. A division of HAL focusing on the humanities and social sciences.

Law

• Also see the list of law-related repositories from Robert Richards.

• Also see SSRN under Social sciences, below.

• Bepress Legal Repository. Submissions in English and other languages for individual scholars through Selected Works

• LitiLaw. From Lexbe.

Library and information science

• E-LIS. All languages. Abstracts in English.

• DList. English.

• ALPS Link Community Portal. Shareable library instructional materials. Based in British Columbia, Canada.

• LDL: Librarians' Digital Library. Exclusive Open Access Repository on LIS. English and Indic Scripts. DRTC, Bangalore, India

Linguistics

• CogPrints. English.
• LingBuzz. English

Literature

• Also see classics.

• English & American Literature Research Network. From SSRN.

Marine science

• Central and Eastern European Marine Repository (CEEMAR). From the [http://www.ibss.org.ua/Default.aspx?alias=www.ibss.org.ua/eng Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas' (IBSS). Deposits limited to those from scientists in European Countries in Economic Transition (ECET).

Mathematics

• Also see computer science.

• Also see the AMS Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers.

• Arxiv. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.

• The Logic Forum.

Medicine

• Also see biology / life sciences.

• e-ms, Eprints Open Archive in Social Medicine and related fields. All languages. Field: Social medicine and related fields.

• Minority Health Archive. From the Center for Minority Health at the University of Pittsburgh.

• OpenMED@NIC. All languages (non-English documents must have metadata, abstract and keywords in English). Fields: "Medical and Allied Sciences including Bio-Medical, Medical Informatics, Dental, Nursing and Pharmaceutical Sciences".

• PubMed Central. From the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Meteorology

• MetRep. From JISC's Overlay journal infrastructure for Meteorological Sciences (OJIMS) project. The repository is forthcoming.

Multidisciplinary repositories

• Also see Humanities; Social Sciences.

• HAL. From France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). (HAL = Hyper Articles en Ligne, Hyper Article on Line.)

• IssueLab. For research by non-profit organizations, in any field.

• OpenSIGLE (Open System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe). From Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique. (INIST). Some contents are just bibliographic citations. (Are there any full-texts?)

• Polish Digital Library Federation Polish Network of digital libraries, open content from all fields.

Philanthropy

• FOLIO (Foundation Literature Online). From IUPUI University Library and the Foundation Center

Philosophy

• For logic, see Mathematics.

• Philosophy Research Network. From SSRN.

• PhilPapers. From David Chalmers and David Bourget.

• PhilSci Archive. All languages. Field: Philosophy of science. From the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Sammelpunkt. Elektronisch archivierte Theorie. German, English, etc.

Physics

• Arxiv - Policy: all languages. Fields: Physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, and statistics.

• CERN Document Server. English. Field: particle physics.

• Magnetic Resonance Online Texts. From Stanislav Sykora.

Psychology

• HTP Prints. Fields: history and theory of psychology. Languages: all languages

• PsyDok. German and English

Public policy research

• PolicyArchive. From the Center for Government Studies and IUPUI University Library.

Regional studies

• Archive of European Integration. All languages.

• SavifaDok. English, German etc. Focusing on South Asian Studies.

Social sciences in general

• Digital Repositories E-Science Network (DReSNeT). From the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). A network of social science repositories for texts and data.

• HAL-SHS. All languages. A division of HAL focusing on the humanities and social sciences.

• Social Science Research Network (SSRN). English.

• Social Science Open Access Repository (SSOAR). Limited to German authors publishing in German and other languages.