Electronic Archives listed in this category provide free and unrestricted access to peer reviewed scientific papers and academic publications. Most of these archives run Eprints, a freeware for self-archiving and building OAI compliant metadata for papers.
An Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant archive of electronic preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, and non-linear sciences. Created by Paul Ginsparg in 1991, it is one of the oldest archives of free online scholarship. arxiv.org
(CAV 2001) Proceedings of the symposium, downloadable from this electronic repository hosted by the Caltech Library System. cav2001.library.caltech.edu
Electronic archive providing full-text access to working papers and dissertations of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. epub.wu-wien.ac.at
An electronic archive for papers produced by members of the Hofstra University Community. It includes papers written by faculty and administrators, papers delivered at Hofstra University sponsored conferences as well as invited lectures. hofprints.hofstra.edu
An experimental project to investigate the institutional use of eprints services at the University of Nottingham. Browsable and searchable digital archives of several research units and departments. www-db.library.nottingham.ac.uk/eprints
Full-text access to publications in the fields of agriculture and land management, development, environment and sustainability, food and nutrition, natural resource development, science and technology. www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=ccgi