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)
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