Scientific Repositories

Scientific repositories are where research becomes findable, reusable, and part of a larger scholarly conversation. This subcategory brings together major places to discover and share work at different stages: preprint archives like arXiv, medRxiv, SocArXiv, and OSF Preprints for reading manuscripts before formal journal publication; publishing and project platforms like F1000Research and OSF; and broad research repositories such as Zenodo, Harvard Dataverse, Dryad, and Figshare for datasets, software, figures, presentations, and other scholarly outputs. Several listings focus on making research materials easier to cite and preserve, with features such as metadata, versions, persistent identifiers, registrations, access controls, and links between papers, datasets, and project files.

There are also highly specialized resources for people working with particular kinds of scientific data. PMC provides full-text biomedical and life sciences journal articles, GenBank supports nucleotide sequence records and BLAST comparisons, RCSB PDB offers curated 3D molecular structures, CERN Open Data Portal opens up high-energy physics datasets with supporting documentation and tools, and NASA Earthdata and NASA OSDR connect users with Earth science and space-related research data. If you are still figuring out where relevant data might live, Dataset Search, re3data, and Awesome Public Datasets are useful discovery starting points, while Flourish helps turn datasets into interactive charts, maps, and other visual stories. Taken together, these sites are less a single shelf of papers than a practical map of modern research: articles, preprints, datasets, code, structures, sequences, and the tools that help people work with them.