The umbrella platform behind many disciplinary preprint servers.
At a Glance
| Publisher | Center for Open Science |
| Coverage | a hosting infrastructure powering numerous community preprint servers and aggregating preprints across disciplines |
| Access | free |
| Regional | global. |
Our Take
OSF Preprints is less a single server than the plumbing under many of them — the Center for Open Science’s infrastructure that hosts and aggregates community preprint services, integrated with the broader Open Science Framework for project and data management. It’s a good single entry point to search across many disciplinary servers at once. Coverage depends on the participating communities. Use it to search multiple preprint communities together and, via OSF, to manage the underlying project and data; verify individual preprints as always.
Power Tips
- Search OSF Preprints to sweep several disciplinary servers in one query, then follow through to the specific community server for context
- use the connected OSF for preregistration and data alongside the preprint (research-transparency workflow).
Alternatives & Complements
SocArXiv · PsyArXiv · EarthArXiv · Zenodo.
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