Preprint Servers
Earth and Space Science (ESS) Open Archive
The ESS Open Archive (formerly ESSOAr) is a community server established to accelerate the open discovery and dissemination of research by archiving and sharing early research outputs, including preprints, presentations from major scientific meetings, and important documents of scholarly societies. The ESS Open Archive is governed by a partnership of institutions, led by the American Geophysical Union and Wiley, which includes the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.
Preprint servers facilitate rapid dissemination of research and allow researchers to share preliminary results and receive peer feedback ahead of formal publication to improve their work and establish priority. All content posted on ESS Open Archive receives a DOI and is citable and freely accessible. Preprints will, where possible, link and resolve to the official published version of record, once available.
The ESS Open Archive also allows researchers to preserve their posters or slide presentations from recognized scientific conferences. The ESS Open Archive allows, and encourages, linking to data sets in leading repositories or other online resources such as posters and videos. The ESS Open Archive also provides an archive for official materials of scholarly societies.
The ESS Open Archive is integrated with the ScholarOne submission system and is active for The Plant Phenome Journal, The Plant Genome, Soil Science Society of America Journal, and Vadose Zone Journal. Authors submitting to these journals now see a new single click option to post their manuscript on the ESS Open Archive preprint server during the submission process. Additional journals will be adding this feature in 2023.
The ESS Open Archive will help resolve pressure on authors submitting to Gold Open Access journals by allowing their manuscripts to become visible online as quickly as. Our hybrid subscription journals will also see similar benefits. The ESS Open Archive is dedicated to supporting ASA, CSSA, SSSA subject matter and supports the early and open sharing of scientific research. Once article has been published in an ASA, CSSA, and SSSA journal, the ESS Open Archive-assigned DOI will resolve to the final published article.
All content is free to access and download without registration. To submit content to ESS Open Archive, authors must go through their ORCID account or Authorea account (or first create one). Content is evaluated for scope and completeness by the Editorial Board. Content is not peer-reviewed and is posted without copyediting or typesetting. Commenting on ESS Open Archive content is available through the open annotation plug-in, hypothes.is. Additional information is in the FAQ and Submission Guide. For additional information, please contact ESS Open Archive directly.