Explore: Preprints

repositories. The sharing of preprints goes back to at least the 1960s, when the National Institutes of Health circulated biological preprints. After six years the

the "X". arXiv was an early adopter and promoter of preprints. Its success in sharing preprints was one of the precipitating factors that led to the

which may include preprints, datasets, and journal publications with open content licenses. List of academic journals by preprint policy List of copyright

growing stream of papers", having hosted 824 preprints. Over 20,000 tweets were made about bioRxiv-hosted preprints in 2015. February 2016, the submission rate

Preprints.org is an open-access platform of electronic preprints approved for posting after moderation. Research in various areas can be posted as preprints

regarding the use of preprints prior to publication (example list). Publishers' policies on self-archiving (including of preprint versions) can also be

Scholar, Europe PubMed Central and Web of Science's Preprint Citation Index. In addition preprints reporting research funded by the National Institutes

platform that functions as a repository for sharing early-stage research and preprints. It facilitates the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social

subsequently opened its own preprint server in 2017, OSF Preprints. Its unified search function includes preprints from OSF Preprints, alongside those from

is a list of funders of research by their open licensing policies for preprints. With the exception of some government employees and contractors, the