SocOpen: Home of SocArXiv
SocArXiv , open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code. SocArXiv is dedicated to opening up social science, to reach more people more effectively, to improve research, and build the future of scholarly communication.
- Upload a paper, browse or search .
- Visit the FAQ page to find out more.
- Follow us on Bluesky or Facebook for updates, email to get involved, check out our YouTube videos, or make a contribution through the University of Maryland.
SocOpen.org is our blog and information center. The site hosts announcements of news and developments related to the archive, as well as essays that reflect the views of the listed authors.
SocArXiv is part of the University of Maryland, and is directed by a steering committee of social scientists and members of the research library community. They are:
- Elizabeth Popp Berman , sociologist, University of Michigan
- Chris Bourg , director of libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Philip N. Cohen , director of SocArXiv and professor of sociology, University of Maryland, College Park
- Brittany Dernberger , sociologist, bnd Ventures and CARE
- Alex Hanna , Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute
- Rebecca Kennison , digital content editor, Health Sciences Library, Columbia University
- Omar Lizardo , sociologist, University of California, Los Angeles
- Pamela Oliver , sociologist, University of Wisconsin–Madison (emerita)
- Michelle Wilson , Head, Open Scholarship Services, University of Maryland Libraries
- Jeff Pooley , media and communication, University of Pennsylvania
- Judy Ruttenberg , Senior Director of Scholarship and Policy, Association of Research Libraries
Our technology partner is the Center for Open Science , which hosts the Open Science Framework Preprints server , of which we are an organizational member.
SocArXiv has been supported by grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Open Society Foundations, as well as the libraries at the University of Maryland, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
arXiv is a trademark of Cornell University, used under license.
Papers submitted to SocArXiv are moderated by a team of dedicated volunteers. Our moderators are:
- Nate Breznau , Social Science, University of Bremen. crowdid.hypotheses.org .
- Taylor Brooks , PhD Candidate, University of Leicester.
- Philip N. Cohen , Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park. philipncohen.com .
- Roxanne Connelly , Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Quantitative Methods, University of Edinburgh. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/roxanne-connelly
- João Granja-Correia , PhD candidate, Universidad de Cantabria. https://joao.granja-correia.eu/ .
- Matt DeCarlo , Assistant Professor, La Salle University Department of Social Work; Co-founder, opensocialwork.org
- Brittany Dernberger . brittanydernberger.com/ .
- Bastián González-Bustamante , DPhil candidate, University of Oxford. https://bgonzalezbustamante.com
- Katy Morris , Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Lausanne
- Pamela Oliver , Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison. ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver .
- Jefferson Pooley , Media and Communication, University of Pennsylvania. jeffpooley.com .
- Patrick Präg , Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique (CREST), CNRS, École polytechnique, GENES, ENSAE Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. sites.google.com/view/ppraeg/ .
- Eike Mark Rinke , Lecturer in Politics and Media, University of Leeds. essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/staff/1073/dr-eike-mark-rinke
- Nils Witte , Senior Researcher, Federal Institute for Population Research, Germany; Goethe-University Frankfurt. nilswitte.com
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