Table 1

Platforms for self-archiving

RepositoriesName of the repositoriesSubject coverageFormat coverage
Disciplinary repositoryArXiv (https://arxiv.org/)Mathematics, non-linear science, quantitative finance and statistics, physics, computer science and quantitative biologyPre-prints, post-prints and working papers
Cogprints (http://cogprints.org/)Neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, psychology, philosophy and biologyFull-text e-print, post-prints and pre-prints
RCLIS/E-LIS (http://eprints.rclis.org/)Library and information sciencePre-print, post-print and working paper
RePEC (http://repec.org/)EconomicsWorking papers, journals, books and software components
PubMed (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/)Biomedical and life sciences literatureJournals, articles and online books
Soc Arxiv (https://socopen.org/)Social sciences, arts and humanities, education and lawPre-prints, post-prints and working papers
Humanities Commons (https://hcommons.org/)Humanities repository for dissertations and theses, work in progress, syllabi, abstracts, data sets, presentations, peer-reviewed journal articles, translations, conference papers, book reviews, maps, charts and moreArticles, monographs, course materials, white papers, code and digital projects
Social science research network (SSRN)
(https://www.ssrn.com/)
Engineering sciences, applied sciences, social sciences, health sciences, humanities, life sciences and physical sciencesPapers
Peer J Pre-prints (https://peerj.com/preprints/)Biology, life science, environmental science, computer science and chemistryTechnical reports from agencies or research groups, working papers, white papers and pre-prints
AgEcon Search- Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics (https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/?ln=en)Generally speaking, agricultural and applied economics encompass agribusiness, food security, energy and natural resource economics and the growth of international tradeWorking papers and reports, journal articles, conference papers and posters, theses or dissertations (see dissertation guidelines), books or book chapters, pre-prints or post-prints of journal articles
Institutional repositoriesROAR (http://roar.eprints.org/)A accessible global database titled the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is available, that keeps track of the creation, growth and evolution of institutional repositories with open access, with the content they includeOpen-access repositories
DOAJ (https://doaj.org/)Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA) operates the website identified as a list of open access journals that have received community approval is available from the Directory of Open-Access Journals (DOAJ).Open-access journals
DOAR (https://www.doar.com/)A UK-based platform Directory of Open-Access Repositories gathers a list of open access repositories. It can be accessed using various criteria, like location and subject. The service does not ask for information from the whole repository and doesn't browse through repository metadataOpen-access repositories encompassing scholarly ones
Digital commons (https://bepress.com/products/digital-commons/)Digital Commons is a greatest hosted option for open sharing, control and display all of your institution's research and scholarly outputOpen educational resources, conference proceedings, journals, campus newsletters, books, and magazines
DSpace (https://www.dspace.com/en/pub/home.cfm)DSpace is a piece of open-source software used to build open access archives for scholarly and/or published digital informationBook, articles, conference papers, etc.

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