Editing CogPrints

'''CogPrints''' is an [[disciplinary repository|electronic archive]] where authors can self-archive papers in various fields related to [[cognitive science]]. These fields include [[psychology]], [[neuroscience]], [[linguistics]], and areas of [[computer science]] such as [[artificial intelligence]], [[robotics]], vision, learning, speech, and [[artificial neural networks]]. The archive also includes works in [[philosophy]] (e.g., philosophy of mind, [[language]], knowledge, science, logic), [[biology]] (e.g., [[ethology]], behavioral ecology, [[sociobiology]], behavior genetics, evolutionary theory), [[medicine]] (e.g., [[psychiatry]], [[neurology]], human genetics, imaging), and [[anthropology]] (e.g., primatology, cognitive ethnology, archaeology, paleontology). Additionally, CogPrints hosts research from other areas of the physical, social, and mathematical sciences that are relevant to the study of [[cognition]].

The archive was launched in 1997 and is moderated by [[Stevan Harnad]]. As of 2025, it contains over 4,000 freely downloadable articles.

CogPrints has been referenced alongside the physics archive [[arXiv]] as an example of the author [[self-archiving]] model within [[open access (publishing)|open access]] publishing. Over time, under the influence of the [[Open Archives Initiative]] and its [[OAI-PMH]], the focus of self-archiving has shifted from centralized repositories like CogPrints to distributed self-archiving in [[institutional repositories]].

CogPrints was among the first repositories to adopt OAI compliance. Its software was later converted into [[EPrints]] at the [[University of Southampton]] by Rob Tansley, who later contributed to the development of [[DSpace]]. EPrints is currently maintained by [[Christopher Gutteridge]] at Southampton.

==See also==
* [[List of academic databases and search engines]]
* [[List of preprint repositories]]

==References==
* Borgman, Christine L (2007) ''Scholarship in the digital age: information, infrastructure, and the Internet''. MIT Press
* Butler, Declan (2000) [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v405/n6783/full/405112a0.html Souped up search engines]. ''Nature'' 405: 112–5 
* Carr, L., Swan, A. and [[Stevan Harnad|Harnad, S.]] (2011) [http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/21844/ Creating and Curating the Cognitive Commons: Southampton’s Contribution]. In: ''Curating the European University'', pp. 193–199, Universitaire Pers Leuven
* Hall, Gary (2008) ''Digitize this book!: the politics of new media, or why we need open access now''. Wilsted & Taylor
* Van de Sompel, Herbert, Thomas Krichel, Michael L. Nelson et al. (2000) [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-ups/02vandesompel-ups.html The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives]. ''D-Lib Magazine'' 6(2).

==External links==
* {{official website}}
* [https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.org/ Web Archive]

[[Category:Eprint archives]]
[[Category:Open-access archives]]
[[Category:Bibliographic databases and indexes]]