Deposit Your Work in Open Access Repositories

Open access repositories provide free, online access to scholarly materials. Some open access repositories accept all types of scholarly materials, including pre-publication materials, journals and peer-reviewed series, seminar series papers, post-prints, and more.

See a description of this and other alternatives and our table of the characteristics of scholarly publishing options.

Institutional repositories:

• UC's eScholarship Repository: More than 150 UC departments and research units already participate. Includes a range of scholarly communication, from pre-publication materials to peer-reviewed content.

Disciplinary repositories include but are not limited to:

• CogPrints: An electronic self-archive for papers in psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology, and areas in the physical, social, and mathematical sciences that relate to the study of cognition. Developed by the University of Southampton, England.
• ArXiv: For physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Operated by Cornell University.
• PubMed Central: A digital archive of life sciences journal literature deposited by publishers. Developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.