SocArXiv is an online paper server for the social sciences founded by sociologist Philip N. Cohen in partnership with the non-profit Center for Open Science.[1][2] It is an open archive based on the ArXiv preprint server model used for the natural sciences, mathematics, and computer science.[3] The site describes itself as an "open archive of the social sciences, [which] provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code."[4] It also hosts papers in the areas of arts and humanities, education, and law.
Producer | (United States) |
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History | 2016 to present |
Access | |
Providers | Center for Open Science |
Cost | Free |
Coverage | |
Disciplines | Social sciences, arts and humanities, education, law |
Format coverage | preprints, postprints, working papers |
Links | |
Website | osf |
The database was launched in 2016, shortly after the purchase of the Social Science Research Network by Elsevier, to meet "a need for a new general, open-access, open-source, paper server for the social sciences, one that encourages linking and sharing data and code, that serves its research to an open metadata system, and that provides the foundation for a post-publication review system."[1] It was built of the Open Science Framework platform, initially as a program of the University of Maryland.[5] In 2021, the University of Maryland Libraries became the institutional home of SocArXiv.[6]
In addition to providing a forum for pre-publication papers as a matter of improving transparency and efficiency, Cohen has called for a central repository for peer-reviews of papers even when the reviews lead to the paper being declined for publication.[7]
As of May 2022, SocArXiv hosted more than 10,000 papers.[8]