A preprint is a draft version of your work that has not yet been subject to a review. It may already be submitted to a publisher in parallel, without having undergone formal peer review. Even though in principle a preprint could be distributed via any medium, in practice they are often self-archived and distributed on central repositories. Community members of these repositories will then be notified and can review the uploaded content. There are several of these kinds of repositories or preprint servers.

Specialist repositories in the field of economics, such as EconStor, and database services like RePEc offer access to preprint and working papers, and are therefore particularly interesting to search.

Cross-disciplinary repositories in which you are able to search for preprints are:

• ArXiv
• OSF Preprints
• SocArXiv
• Zenodo

You can find further repositories using the search services for repositories.

You can find further repositories with the overview lists of repositories.