Function: Peer Review

Repositories providing this function

Name Status Description
AAS Open Research Open AAS Open Research is a platform for rapid publication and open peer review for researchers supported by the AAS and programs supported through its funding platform, AESA.
Advance (Sage preprint) Open Advance: a SAGE preprints community allows researchers within the fields of humanities and social sciences to post their work online and free of charge.
AfricArxiv Open AfricArXiv is a community-led digital archive for African research, working towards building an African-owned open scholarly repository; a knowledge commons of African scholarly works to catalyze the African Renaissance.
AgriRxiv Open agriRxiv (pronounced ‘agri-archive’) is a free, open access source of unpublished preprints across the agricultural sciences.
AMRC Open Research Open A platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by AMRC member charities
ARPHA Preprints Open The submission systems limited to the participating ARPHA journals
arXiv Open arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for 1,871,031 scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics. Materials on this site are not peer-reviewed by arXiv.
Authorea Open Authorea is the leading collaborative platform to read, write, and publish research.
Beilstein Archive Open The Beilstein Archives is currently limited to publishing preprints of unpublished research results in the fields of organic chemistry and nanotechnology. At this time, we are only publishing preprints that are intended for publication in one of the Beilstein Journals
bioRxiv Open bioRxiv (pronounced "bio-archive") is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences.
Cell Press Sneak peek Open Manuscript under review in Cell Press journals
CrossAsia-Repository Open CrossAsia-Repository, the full-text server of the Virtual Library CrossAsia is the platform for publishing and archiving research literature in Asian Studies. Academics from all over the world are offered the possibility to publish their research on all fields of Asian Studies free of charge and without access limitation.
EcoEvoRxiv Open Information about a free preprint service for ecology, evolution and conservation.
ESSOAr Open The Earth and Space Science Open Archive (ESSOAr) is a community server established to accelerate the open discovery and dissemination of earth, environmental, and space science research by archiving and sharing early research outputs, including preprints, presentations from major scientific meetings, and important documents of scholarly societies.
F1000 Research Open An open access publishing platform supporting data deposition and sharing. Publish all your findings including null results, data notes and more. Engage with your reviewers openly and transparently. Accelerate the impact of your research.
Gates Open Research Open Gates Open Research is a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
HAL Open HAL is an open archive where authors can deposit scholarly documents from all academic fields.
HRB Open Research Open HRB Open Research is a platform for HRB-funded researchers to rapidly publish their research outputs in an open and accessible way
JMIR Preprints Open A preprint server for pre-publication/pre-peer-review preprints intended for community review as well as ahead-of-print (accepted) manuscripts.
MedRxiv Open medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but unpublished manuscripts (preprints) in the medical, clinical, and related health sciences.
MetaArXiv Open An interdisciplinary archive of articles focused on improving research transparency and reproducibility.
MitoFit Preprints Archive Open The Open Access preprint server for mitochondrial physiology and bioenergetics
MNI Open Research Open MNI Open Research is a platform for rapid publication and open peer review of research conducted by Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital researchers.
Nature Precedings Closed to Submission Only Nature Precedings functioned as a permanent, citable archive for pre-publication research and preliminary findings. It was a place for researchers to share documents, including presentations, posters, white papers, technical papers, supplementary findings, and non-peer-reviewed manuscripts.
Open Research Europe Open Open Research Europe is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020 funding across all subject areas. The platform makes it easy for Horizon 2020 beneficiaries to comply with the open access terms of their funding and offers researchers a publishing venue to share their results and insights rapidly and facilitate open, constructive research discussion.
OSF preprints Open The launch of OSF Preprints branded services continues COS’s ongoing commitment to open and transparent research practices. The new preprints service is built on our flagship platform, OSF, which helps researchers design and manage their project workflow, data storage, DOI management, and collaboration.
PaleorXiv Open A preprint archive for Paleontology
PeerJ Preprints Closed to Submission Only Initially, developed as preprint server for PeerJ submissions
Preprints with The Lancet Open In 2018, the Lancet journals initiated a collaboration with the research sharing platform SSRN to offer authors a dedicated preprint area called Preprints with The Lancet. Preprints available here are not Lancet publications or necessarily under review with a Lancet journal.
Preprints.org Open Preprints is a platform dedicated to making early versions of research outputs permanently available and citable.
SciELO Preprints Open SciELO Preprints Collection is an integral part of SciELO, an international cooperation program aiming at the development of open access scientific communication covering all areas of knowledge. It operates as a collection of non-peer-reviewed manuscripts within the SciELO Network of national and thematic collection of journals.
ScienceOpen Open ScienceOpen is a discovery platform with interactive features for scholars to enhance their research in the open, make an impact, and receive credit for it. We provide context building services for publishers, to bring researchers closer to the content than ever before.
Sciencepaper Online Open Sciencepaper Online is an open repository and distribution service for scientific researchers in the field of all scientific fields
ViXra Open An alternative archive of 36951 e-prints in Science, Mathematics & Other Scholarly Areas serving the whole scientific community
Wellcome Open Research Open Wellcome Open Research provides all Wellcome researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing. All articles benefit from rapid publication, transparent peer review and editorial guidance on making all source data openly available.
WikiJournal Preprints Open The WikiJournal Publishing Group is a set of open-access, peer-reviewed academic journals with no publishing costs to authors. Its goal is to provide free, quality-assured knowledge.

Services providing this function

Name Cost Description Repositories
eLife Completely free https://elifesciences.org/inside-elife/e9091cea/peer-review-new-initiatives-to-enhance-the-value-of-elife-s-process - An OA journal proposing to publish peer-reviews of preprints submitted to e-Life, whatever the outcome of the evaluation 2
Peer Community in Completely free https://peercommunityin.org/ - A community of scientists and researchers and a platform for assessing through open peer-review and possibly recommending preprints submitted by authors. No costs implied for users. Authors submit their preprints to get a recommendation after peer-reviews and editorial decisions. The recommendation is published by the PCI together with all peer-review material. However, the service does not publish the article because which stays on the preprint server and/or may be submitted to a journal (the decision is made by the authors). 10
Peerage of Science Completely free https://www.peerageofscience.org - PoS operates upstream from the publication system and provides support to existing scientific journals. Its revenues come from organizations wishing to purchase the peer review service. 2
PREreview Completely free https://www.prereview.org - A community and platform for the collaborative writing of preprint reviews. It gathers journal clubs providing feedback to authors but it also publishes reviews (of preprints) written by any researcher with an Orcid iD. Authors do not submit their own preprints to PREreview for evaluation. 2
Publons Completely free https://publons.com/publon/covid-19/ - A searchable index of all COVID-19 papers and preprints, updated daily. 1
Research Square Completely free https://www.researchsquare.com/ - Indicates whether a preprint is currently under review in a journal. 1
Review Commons Completely free https://www.reviewcommons.org - A platform that peer-reviews preprints before submission to a journal, provides authors with a Refereed Preprint, which includes the authors’ manuscript, reports from a single round of peer review and the authors’ response. The refereed preprint is then sent to bioRxiv and affiliate journals. 2