Research, shared openly and judged in the open
PubArx is a free, community-run repository for research preprints in every discipline. It combines the speed of a preprint server with an optional, fully transparent layer of community review.
Why PubArx exists
Sanctions, political pressure, publication charges and other financial barriers keep many researchers from publishing their work, however good it is. PubArx began as a movement of researchers who decided to answer this together: to share our findings in an open and transparent space, to challenge one another’s work in public, and to let the quality of research, not the circumstances of the people who produce it, decide how it is judged.
Anyone can read every paper. Anyone who follows our rules can submit, review and take part, free of charge.
Fast
Papers are screened by a moderator, usually within two working days, and then published with a permanent identifier.
Discoverable
Every paper has a stable page with Google Scholar metadata, a sitemap entry and an OAI-PMH record for aggregators.
Accountable
Reviews and endorsements are signed with the reviewer’s name and ORCID iD and tied to a specific version, so credibility is earned in public.
What PubArx is and is not
Screening checks that a submission is a scholarly work within scope, complete, and free of obvious problems. It is not peer review. Unless a paper shows community reviews, readers should treat it as an unreviewed preprint, and even reviewed papers express the views of their authors and reviewers, not of PubArx.
Authors decide whether to invite community review. When they do, researchers who sign in with ORCID and declare no conflict of interest can publish signed reviews. Any published paper can be endorsed by such researchers. Authors respond publicly and can post revised versions, each with a changelog.
Identifiers and citation
Each paper receives a permanent identifier such as PubArx:2026.00042, with versions addressed as …v2. Identifiers are never reused. PubArx may register DOIs for papers in the future.
Open infrastructure
- Google Scholar–compatible metadata on every abstract page. Indexing is done by Google and is not guaranteed.
- An OAI-PMH endpoint for harvesters such as BASE, CORE and OpenAIRE.
- BibTeX and RIS exports for every paper.
Who runs PubArx
PubArx is run by the PubArx Community, a volunteer-run, not-for-profit scholarly initiative. It is independent and is not affiliated with arXiv, Cornell University, or any publisher, university or government. The rules that apply to everyone are in our Terms of use, Privacy policy and Copyright and takedown policy.
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