ePrint Archives

ePrint or institutional archives provide free access to the full text of a wide range of resources. These can include pre-refereed preprints of journal articles, refereed journal articles, conference papers and institutional reports. Many are discipline based eg Chemistry preprint server, but there are a growing number of institution based archives eg University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER).

Archives can be accessed and searched individually, or collectively using meta search services eg OAIster. These services collect meta data from a number of archives and include links to archived documents.

Meta Search Services
Institutional Archives
Subject Archives

Meta Search Services

ARC (Old Dominion University, Virginia) - A cross archive search service. Includes basic and advanced search options.
Arrow (Australian Research Repositories Online to the World) - The ARROW discovery service provides cross-disciplinary access to scholarly materials held by Australian universities. It currently indexes metadata from several university repositories.
AuseSearch - Meta-search facility on all open access (OAI) repositories in Australian and New Zealand universities containing refereed articles and PhD theses.
my.OIA - A full-featured search engine to a selected list of metadata databases from the Open Archives Initiative project. Can be tailored by the user to suit individual interests.
OAIster (University of Michigan) - A collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources. The service encompasses as broad a collection of resources as possible (i.e., with no subject parameters).
ScientificCommons (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) - 'ScientificCommons aims to provide the most comprehensive overview of scientific articles and contributions available on the internet. The major goal is to enable the free distribution of scientific knowledge to anyone. The growing number of Open Access Repositories worldwide with their vast number of scientific contributions are the source for ScientificCommons'.

Institutional Archives

arXiv e-Print archive (Cornell University) - Includes a number of categories such as of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology.
BBS Prints Interactive Archive - Categories include biology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy and psychology. Searchable by title, publication, author and year.
Caltech Collection of Open Digital Archives (CODA) (California Institute of Technology) - Subject areas include computer science, aeronautics, strategic computing, environmental quality, engineering and science, hydraulics and water resources.
DSpace (MIT Libraries) - A newly developed digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of MIT. Subject areas include architecture and planning, engineering, humanities, science, management and social science.
EPrints Repository (ANU) - Includes categories such as Arts; Biological Sciences; Engineering; Humanities; Medicine; Environmental Sciences; Social Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics. Visitors are able to view items added in the last week.
University of Melbourne ePrints Repository (UMER) - An institutional server designed to load and provide free access to the research output of University of Melbourne academic staff.

Subject Archives

Cogprints: Cognitive Science Eprint Archive - Contains information pertinent to the study of cognition in the areas of Psychology, neuroscience, and Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, Anthropology, as well as the physical, social and mathematical sciences.
Computer Science Preprint Server - Permanent web archive and rapid distribution medium for research articles in the field of computer science open to all users. Includes final-version articles as well as reports on work in progress. Articles can be ranked and commented on in discussion threads.
DoIS: Documents in Information Science (UK) - A free service for finding and downloading the latest research results in Information Science. A database of articles and conference proceedings published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science.
Education-line - A freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.
E-LIS: E-prints in Library and Information Science - An electronic open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, in Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related application activities.
HTP Prints (York University, Canada) - A free service to the community of scholarly historians and theoreticians of psychology with the goal of promoting the rapid dissemination of new work in the field.
RePEc: Research papers in economics - A collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 42 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics.
SSRN: Social Science Research Network - Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences.