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Electronic Archives listed in this category provide free and unrestricted access to peer reviewed scientific papers and academic publications. Most of these archives run Eprints, a freeware for self-archiving and building OAI compliant metadata for papers.

Resources in This Category

• ArchiveSIC

  http://archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/
  French digital archive providing free access to full-text papers in the domain of information and communication science [bilingual site in English/French].

• ArXiv.org

  http://arxiv.org/
  An Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant archive of electronic preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, and non-linear sciences. Created by Paul Ginsparg in 1991, it is one of the oldest archives of free online scholarship.

• Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA)

  https://bora.uib.no/
  Digital repository of a research institutions in Norway. Includes full-text peer-reviewed journal reprints, theses, dissertations and other academic research materials. [English, Norwegian]

• Caltech Computer Science Technical Reports

  http://caltechcstr.library.caltech.edu/
  Electronic archive of freely downloadable full-text technical reports in PDF format.

• Caltech Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory

  http://caltecheerl.library.caltech.edu/
  Archive of freely downloadable technical reports from several labs in the domain of earth sciences at CalTech.

• Caltech Library System Papers and Publications

  http://caltechlib.library.caltech.edu/
  Eprint repository of academic papers in the field of library and information science.

• Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science

  http://www.cle.unicamp.br/e-prints/
  Preprints by members and visiting researchers of the CLE, a research institute at the University of Campinas, Brazil.

• CERN Document Server: Articles and Preprints

  http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Articles%20%26%20Preprints?ln=en
  Collection aiming to cover the published and pre-published literature in particle physics and its related technologies. The collection includes over 900,000 documents, many of which have full-text access.

• CiteSeer

  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
  Autonomously creates citation indexes of scientific literature. Generates citation statistics and allows easy browsing of the context of citations. Texts freely available in PDF, PS, HTML format..

• Cogprints

  http://cogprints.org/
  Makes preprints and reprints of papers in all areas of the cognitive sciences freely available on-line. Authors can deposit their work in the archive after a (free) registration.

• Collection on Critical Global Issues

  http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=ccgi
  Full-text access to publications in the fields of agriculture and land management, development, environment and sustainability, food and nutrition, natural resource development, science and technology.

• Cryptology Eprint Archive

  http://eprint.iacr.org/
  Provides access to author-submitted research papers in cryptology.

• Department of Energy Information Bridge

  http://www.osti.gov/bridge/
  Full-text research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

• Digital Library and Archives - Virginia Tech

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/
  Open Archive Initiative (OAI) compliant digital repository. E-journals, electronic theses and dissertations, faculty archives.

• Digital Library of Information Science and Technology

  http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
  (DLIST) Developed by the School of Information Resources and Library Science and the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona using Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant Eprints v.2 software.

• Digital.CSIC

  http://digital.csic.es/
  Institutional Repository of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Contains the research output produced by CSIC scientists including articles, pre-prints, communications, theses, patents and technical reports. [Spanish/English]

• DiVA Portal

  http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/search.jsf
  Centralized archive of a joint group of Scandinavian universities. Includes full-text theses, dissertations and other academic publications.

• Document and Publication Server of the Humboldt University of Berlin

  http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/
  Provides free access to publications, theses and dissertations, electronic e-print journals. [English and German]

• Electronic Publications of the WU-Wien

  http://epub.wu-wien.ac.at/
  Electronic archive providing full-text access to working papers and dissertations of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

• Elektronische Bibliothek der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen

  http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/
  Digital archive providing full-text access to papers, theses and dissertations in PDF format.

• EPrints in Library and Information Science

  http://eprints.rclis.org/
  E-LIS is an open access archive to deposit preprints, postprints and other documents in the field of library and information science in electronic format.

• eScholarship Repository

  http://escholarship.org/
  Repository of the University of California, U.S., offering a broad range of e-books, journals and peer-reviewed scientific documents. Includes submission guidelines, editing assistance and FAQs.

• Essays.se

  http://www.essays.se/
  Search and download thousands of English-language university essays from Sweden.

• EverySpec

  http://www.everyspec.com/
  Provides free access to over 20,000 military, DoD, Federal, NASA, DOE and Government specifications, standards, handbooks and publications.

• Fourth International Symposium on Cavitation

  http://cav2001.library.caltech.edu/
  (CAV 2001) Proceedings of the symposium, downloadable from this electronic repository hosted by the Caltech Library System.

• Free Full-Text Science Archives

  http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/largest.dtl
  A directory with annotated links to institutional full-text scientific archives.

• HighWire Press

  http://highwire.stanford.edu/
  Division of the Stanford University Libraries producing online versions of peer-reviewed journals and scholarly content.

• Institut Nicod Eprints Archive

  http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/
  Online research papers in philosophy, sociology and cognitive science of the Jean Nicod Institute's members.

• IOWA University - Computer Science Technical Reports

  http://archives.cs.iastate.edu/
  Digital repository of full-text technical reports downloadable in multiple formats.

• MIT Theses: Science, Technology, and Society

  http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7912
  Searchable collection of selected MIT master's and doctoral theses available online.

• NASA Astrophysic Data System

  http://adswww.harvard.edu/
  Free online abstracts and full-text papers in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary sciences, and solar physics.

• Nottingham Eprints

  http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/
  An experimental project to investigate the institutional use of eprints services at the University of Nottingham. Browsable and searchable digital archives of several research units and departments.

• OAIster

  http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/
  Gives access to a large number of eprints archives and electronic resources and through the OAI harvesting protocol reveals digital resources previously "hidden" from users behind web scripts.

• Organic Eprints

  http://orgprints.org/
  Open access archive for papers related to research in organic agriculture.

• Philsci Archive

  http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
  An electronic archive for preprints in the philosophy of science.

• PublicationsList.org

  http://publicationslist.org/
  Site for hosting individual academic publications lists and papers with links to self archived full text PDFs. Indexed by author. Free for students, subscription for staff.

• SISTA

  http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~sistawww/cgi-bin/pub.pl
  Publication database with search engine from the Katholieke university, Netherlands. Includes books, papers, reports and theses on different scientific topics.

• Surrey Scholarship Online

  http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/
  Open access online repository containing the full text of scholarly papers produced by members of the University of Surrey including peer-reviewed, published journal articles and conference papers.

• The Digital Library of the Commons

  http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/
  Gateway to the international literature on the commons, this working paper archive provides access to author-submitted papers, as well as full-text conference papers, dissertations, working pre-prints and reports.

• University of Trento Eprints archive

  http://eprints.biblio.unitn.it/
  A digital repository (OAI compliant) of full-text scientific publications produced by professors and researchers of the University of Trento, Italy.

• Uppsala University Publications

  http://publications.uu.se/
  Full-text working papers and research reports in PDF format.

• US Department of Energy - Energy, Science, and Technology Preprints

  http://www.osti.gov/eprints/
  Searchable gateway to preprint servers that deal with scientific and technical disciplines such as physics, materials, chemistry, biology, environmental sciences, and nuclear medicine, related to the activity of the department.

• Virginia Tech - Electronic Theses

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/
  Searchable and browsable digital archive of theses and dissertations.

• Warsaw University of Technology

  http://zet10.ipee.pwr.wroc.pl/?ln=en
  Institutional repository of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Contains full-text papers, articles, preprints, theses and teaching materials.

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