Enhance Your Research Visibility

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

• arXIv.org - founded in 1991

  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)

• Humanities Commons -  (CORE Repository)

  Preferred subject areas: All fields of humanities
  Preferred publication type: n/a
  Maintained by: Michigan State University

• PhilArchive - founded in 2009

  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

• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - founded in 1994 (now owned by Elsevier).

  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

   

Registry of Open Access Repositories - This website offers the possibility to search for open access repositories by different criteria.