Permanent access to research data is a challenge for all stakeholders in the scientific community. The long-term preservation and principle of open access to research data offers broad opportunities for the scientific community.

Additionally, there are platforms that foster central, open-access repository of research. With the growing dedication to support Open Access publishing, institutional repositories, preprint servers, and funder repositories have grown over the years.

Manuscript Repositories

Brief list of manuscript repositories that may be of interest to the biomedical sciences and other related fields:

  1. DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard): Freely available articles, dissertations, and manuscripts by Harvard researchers
     
  2. PubMed_Central: NIH repository of articles made freely available via the NIH Public Access Policy or OA policies of an individual journal title
     
  3. bioRxiv: Digital repository of Biology preprints and working papers
     
  4. arXiv: Preprint repository including Physics, Quantitative Biology, Electrical Engineering, Systems Science
     
  5. Nature Precedings: NPG’s preprint server for the Life Science
     
  6. NSF – Public Access Repository: NSF repository of manuscripts published with NSF funding
     
  7. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI): DOE science, technology, and engineering research
     
  8. Scientific Data: Open-data journal for publication of datasets from across the life, physical, and social sciences