NEW! THE MAGIC OF PRE-PRINT REPOSITORIES: A NEW ELEMENT IN YOUR RESEARCH REGIMEN:
WHY RESEARCHERS SHOULD USE PRE-PRINT REPOSITORIES TO THEIR RESEARCH REGIMEN THE LEADING PRE-PRINT REPOSITORIES MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE ARE AS FOLLOWS:
"A List of Leading Pre-Print Repositories:
Pre-print repositories differ from academic journals in two main ways. First, there are no strict formatting guidelines for the articles and second, there is no peer-review process.
The main impact of these differences is that the publication process is much shorter. This saves researchers a lot of time before and also while submitting their work.
MANY NEW PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINES AND RESOURCES MAY BE FOUND HERE
Below are some of the leading pre-print repositories; many of these are directly or indirectly relevant to the fields of AGRICULTURE/AGRONOMY, including the broader fields of ECONOMICS, the SOCIAL or the BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, LAW, and the SCIENCES, including STEM FIELDS:
1) ArXiv (pronounced like “archive”), launched in 1991, is run by the Cornell University Library and contains 1.37 million pre-print manuscripts covering a wide range of fields
2) SocArXiv is a major and important pre-print repository for the Social Sciences.
3) BioRxiv was set up in 2013 by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Its main benefit is that it has a direct transfer service to many leading journals, including such Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
4) EngrXivis is a pre-print repository for the engineering sciences. The University of Wisconsin–Stout launched it in July 2016.
5) ChemRxiv is a pre-print repository for chemistry. The American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, and German Chemical Society maintain it.
6) PsyArXiv was launched in December 2016 and is a pre-print repository for the psychological sciences.
7) ***LawArXivis*** a pre and post-print repository for legal content. The following institutions own and maintain it:
- Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA)
- Mid-American Law Library Consortium (MALLCO)
- NELLCO Law Library Consortium, Inc. (NELLCO)
- Cornell Law Library
8) EarthArXiv is a pre-print repository that publishes articles from not only the earth sciences but also related fields.
9) AFRICA ARXIV: "A free preprint service for African scientists"
10) AGRICULTURE AND ALLIED SCIENCES PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINE:
"AgriXiv.org is a free, open access preprints archive for Agriculture and Allied Sciences. AgriXiv.org utilizes the Open Science Framework (OSF) preprint service maintained by the Center for Open Science (COS)"
11) Humanities Commons CORE: Welcome to CORE: Open Access for the Humanities, a nonprofit, interdisciplinary, broad-ranging alternative to commercial networks. Humanities Common Core has a search engine to locate open access materials.
12) medRxiv.org: medRxiv.org - the preprint server / search engine for Health Sciences
medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.
13) NEW! OUTBREAK SCIENCE FOR COVID-19 (AND OTHER OUTBREAKS) PREPRINTS and RESEARCH
ARTICLE ABOUT "PRE-PRINTS AND THE FUTURE OF PREPRINTS" from JISC SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
"Are Preprints paving the way to Science in Real time?" (May 2019)
MANY NEW PREPRINT SEARCH ENGINES AND RESOURCES MAY BE FOUND HERE
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