Preprint servers

• Directories of preprints
• Individual servers

Preprint and eprint servers are sites where documents are available either before publishing or as an alternative source to the formally published version. Some may not be published in any other form.

Normally preprint servers are subject specific, often with a very narrow focus. They are quite numerous in the areas of Maths and Physics but many other disciplines do not yet have extensive preprint archives. This list is a guide to some of the sites that provide directories of preprints, as well as listing some of the most important individual preprint servers.

 Directories of preprints

• arXive Preprint Server Physics, mathematics, nonlinear sciences and computer science
  http://au.arXiv.org/
• Astroweb: Astronomy & Astrophysics preprints
  http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb/preprint.html
• Directory of Mathematics Preprint and e-Print Servers American Mathematical Society
  http://www.ams.org/global-preprints/
• LANL Research Library: Preprints/eprints
  http://lib-www.lanl.gov/libinfo/preprints.htm
• Mathematics Information Servers
  http://www.math.psu.edu/MathLists/
• Mathematics Virtual Library
  http://www.math.fsu.edu/Virtual/index.php?f=16
  Guide to Philosophy on the Internet - Preprints
  http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/gpi/preprint.htm
• Research Papers in Economics (RePEc)
  http://repec.org/
• United States. Department of Energy. Eprint Network
  http://www.osti.gov/eprints/pathways/
• The Virtual Technical Reports Center EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web.
  http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
• Washington University Libraries: Biology full text sources
  http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/life/ejournals.html

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 Individual servers

• BBS Online Behavioural and brain sciences
  http://www.bbsonline.org/bbsprints.html
  Bologna Astrophysical Preprints
  http://www.bo.astro.it/bap/BAPhome.html
• CERN Document Server High-energy physics. Covers preprints, books, periodicals, reports, photographs, and more.
  http://cds.cern.ch/
• Chemical Physics Preprint Database
  http://www.chem.brown.edu/chem-ph.html
• Chemistry Preprint Server
  http://www.chemweb.com/preprint?url=/CPS
• Cogprints: Cognitive Sciences Preprint Artchive
  http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk/
• Conservation Laws Preprint Server
  http://www.math.ntnu.no/conservation/
• Cryptology ePrint Archive
  http://eprint.iacr.org/index.html
• ESI Preprints Erwin Schrodinger Institute, Vienna, Austria (Mathematics)
  http://www.esi.ac.at/ESI-Preprints.html
• Fermilab Preprint Server Particle physics
  http://fnalpubs.fnal.gov/index.html
• History & Theory of Psychology E-Print Archive
  http://htpprints.yorku.ca/
• Information about Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences E-Prints explanation rather than a site
  http://www.gfdl.gov/~smg/pointers/announcement.html
• MCMC Preprint Service Statistics
  http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~mcmc/index.html
• Princeton Observatory Preprints Astrophysics
  http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~library/prep.html

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