Social Science Print Repositories
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open-access repository devoted to the rapid dissemination of scholarly research in the social sciences and humanities.
| Subjects Covered | Social Sciences and Humanities. SSRN is a series of Subject Area Networks. |
| Launch Date | 1994 |
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| Managing Entity | Elsevier |
| Types of Prints Accepted | Working and accepted papers. |
| Acquisition Approach | Authors can self-deposit and SSRN works with over 1,800 scientific journals and research institutions to deposit works. |
| Additional Notes | SSRN was sold to Elsevier in May 2016. Full-text is mostly available, although some are only abstracts and will prompt you to contact the author for access to the article. |
SocArXiv is an open archive of the social sciences and provides a free and publicly accessible platform for social scientists to upload working papers, pre-prints, published papers, data, and code. SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.
| Subjects Covered | Social Sciences |
| Launch Date | 2016 |
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| Managing Entity | A partner of the nonprofit Center for Open Science (COS). SocArXiv is housed at the University of Maryland. |
| Types of Prints Accepted | Working papers, Pre-prints, and post-prints |
| Acquisition Approach | Author Deposit. No fee to submit. |
| Additional Notes | Google Scholar indexes SocArXiv papers. |
Additional Social Sciences Print Repositories:
e-LIS is the largest international open repository in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS) and has grown to include a team of volunteer editors and support for 22 languages.
A free, open scholarly platform for library and information science, powered by OSF Preprints
Cogprints is an electronic archive for self-archive papers in any area of Cognitive Sciences: Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, and many areas of Computer Science, Philosophy, Biology, Medicine, and Anthropology.