Open Access Publishing support is available, including waivers for article processing charges (APCs).
For questions about OA support, contact OAFunding@ceu.edu.
Institutional repositories allow authors to contribute the content they produce while at their institution into a database based on open standards so their content is interoperable and widely disseminated on the web.
Most are committed to sustainability and long-term access to their content.
Repositories may host articles, books, conference presentations, research data, theses and dissertations, working papers, blog posts, posters, videos, images, and more.
The free and open-source repository software movement was instrumental in the move to change the existing scholarly ecosystem. DSpace and EPrints were two early examples, 2002 and 2000 respectively, with widespread adoption and robust user groups, but there are many others.
Subject or disciplinary repositories and general purpose repositories have a long history. These repositories are tailor-made by experts in a field and are targeted for a specialized group of users so features can be developed accordingly.
Some repositories are general purpose or format-based like Dataverse (Harvard), an open source research data repository. They are generally open to authors with any or no institutional affiliation.
Examples
CEU Open Research Repository – launched in 2023 to showcase the Open Access publications produced by CEU faculty and affiliated researchers.
Preferred subject areas: Any subject area
Preferred publication type: journal articles, book reviews and editorials, monographs, book chapters, working papers, theses and dissertations
Maintained by: CEU Library
Preferred subject areas: Computer science, economics, electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics
Preferred publication type: Preprint
Maintained by: Cornell University Library
Figshare
Preferred subject areas: All fields of humanities
Preferred publication type: interdisciplinary
Maintained by: Digital Science (Company)
Preferred subject areas: All fields of humanities
Preferred publication type: n/a
Maintained by: Michigan State University
Preferred subject areas: Philosophy
Preferred publication type: Articles
Maintained by: Western University, Canada
Research Papers in Economics (Repec)
Preferred subject areas: Economics and related fields
Preferred publication type: Bibliographic data about: Books, book chapters, journal articles, software components and working papers
Maintained by: Feral Reserve Bank, St. Louis
Preferred subject areas: Social sciences, humanities, life sciences, health sciences
Preferred publication type: Preprints
Maintained by: Elsevier
Zenodo
Preferred subject areas: Any subject area.
Preferred publication type: Any type: research papers, data sets, software, reports, and other related digital materials.
Maintained by: CERN