Institutional and Central Repositories
A repository is different from a journal. It includes peer-reviewed journal articles from many journals self-archived by their authors, as well as other kinds of material. Most repositories are distributed, institutional and cross-disciplinary, and some are central, cross-institutional and discipline-based. Here are some examples of central, discipline-based repositories (For Institutional Repositories, see Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR).
- arXiv: Physics/Mathematics OA Archive (central)
- CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences OA Archive (central)
- Citebase: Citation-linked browser (harvested from distributed websites)
- Citeseer: Computer Science (harvested from distributed websites)
- OpenMED@NIC: An open access archive for Medical and Allied Sciences
- PubMed Central: the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature
- Research Papers in Economics: a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 45 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The heart of the project is a decentralized database of working papers, journal articles and software components. All RePEc material is freely available.
- NNMATH a project in progress to create an open access database of reviews of mathematical articles.
Read more about this topic: List Of Open Access Projects
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