Self-Archive Repositories
One of the two main ways scholars engage in open access publishing is by self-archiving, i.e., placing their articles (whether pre-print, post-print, or no-print) in a long-term Internet Archive.
For legal scholars in 2006, the two best known self-archiving repositories are the Legal Scholarship Network (part of the larger Social Science Research Network, or SSRN); and the bepress Legal Repository (part of the larger Berkeley Electronic Press).
Both the Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) and the Directory of Open Access Repositories (DOAR) maintain lists of self-archiving sites.
Some of the better known repositories discussed in the open access literature are as follows:
- arXiv, for physics, mathematics, computer science, and quantitative biology
- COBRA, for biostatistics research
- Cogprints, for psychology, neuroscience, linquistics, and computer science
- DLIST, for library and information sciences, and information technology
- EconWPA, for economics
- eScholarship, a California Digital Library repository
- Highwire Press, a Stanford University Libraries project
- Oxford Text Archive, for linguistics
- PubMed Central, for biomedical and life sciences research