During April it may take longer than usual to deal with submissions. You should continue to submit as usual, but please do not submit any large collections of papers during this time.
We currently accept e-prints for submission via e-mail only. You should follow these steps:
If you have any difficulties with this procedure please ask us about it.
If you wish to replace a paper that has already been listed you should send the updated version by e-mail in the same way except that the subject should be "replacement" followed by the listing reference in the form viXra:nnnn.nnnn. This must be done from the same e-mail address as the original submission.
When a paper is replaced we will normally keep copies of earlier versions online as a record. If you wish any earlier versions to be removed for any reason please let us know in the body of the e-mail
To withdraw a paper send us an e-mail with the subject "withdraw" followed by the listing reference. A reason for withdrawal should be given in the body of the e-mail. This must be done from the same e-mail address as the original submission.
You can make other change requests by e-mail (e.g. to move a submission to a different category or change a comment). Note however that we do not do category cross-listings.
viXra.org does not require that authors grant any specific license to viXra.org. Copyright is assumed to remain entirely with the authors of any articles submitted. We will comply with any verified request to withdraw articles from any of its authors. viXra.org assumes that submitters have gained permission of all authors for us to archive articles on viXra.org and its mirrors, and to allow them to be indexed and cached in search engines and other catalogues including Google Scholar, Citeseer. Open Archive Initiative and SPIRES. If this is not the case please do not submit. Permission is not given for them to be copied and held in other public archives except as a temporary cache. No rights granted are assumed to be exclusive to viXra.org and authors may submit their work to other archives and journals without constraints from us. viXra.org will never charge for access to any articles, but we reserve the right to introduce some advertising on the website or other money raising schemes if this is necessary for funding to support the running and development of the site. The articles in PDF format will never be modified by us and can only appear in their original form. Authors may specify a particular license agreement (such as creative commons) provided it is consistent with these conditions. We recommend that any such license be stated in the PDF document. We will also include it in our comments field if we are aware of it.
Please keep to our simple rules for your submission e-mails. We expect each instruction to be in a single e-mail with a single attached document where required and a subject indicating the type of instruction as detailed in these notes. We will try to accommodate any extraordinary requirements where they are necessary but if you send your submissions in the form of complex instructions in messages which do not have the required format for the subject without good reason, then we may ask for resubmission. We ask this in order to keep down the level of work required to process and track submissions and to reduce the likelihood of error.
It is the stated purpose of viXra to accept all reasonable submissions of scientific papers. However we reserve the right to reject or withdraw papers and we are likely to do so if we become aware of the following:
We do not accept works of art, literature, journalism or similar categories that have no scientific content.
Submissions should be single papers. Collections such as compiled works or conference proceedings would need to be separated into individual papers and submitted individually. Longer works such as books or thesis can be accepted provided author, title and abstract are included.
ViXra will accept e-prints in any language, but please provide at least a title and abstract in English. A paper will reach a wider audience if written in English so we realise that most authors will want to provide their work in English. However, we advise that translations of technical articles produced using automated translators are very poor and hard to understand. You may find it better to provide a single PDF with both language versions combined.
We cannot normally accept submissions in formats other than PDF or sent in other ways. Sometimes we accept Word files that we convert to PDF using a Microsoft converter, but it is much better that you do the conversion yourself.
Use your own real names in the author list. We cannot accept anonymous papers and may withdraw them if the authors name is found to be a pseudonym.
We advise against using copy protection in your PDF, but if you must, then please send a separate copy of the title, author and abstract so we can copy it to our server. The same applies if your PDF is a photographic scan or any other format that does not allow copy and paste.
Some publishers may not permit an e-print to be kept online when they publish your paper. Please check their terms and conditions and keep copies as we cannot act as intermediaries in any dispute.
We reserve the right to place an article in a different science category if we think it is more appropriate
If there is no suitable category in our current listings for your paper please suggest a new one.
Comments should be very brief and limited to technicalities such as the number of pages, license terms and publication notes. Information about the content of the paper such as its aims is more suitable for the abstract.
Please try to keep your abstract to a reasonable length (< 400 words). We may have to truncate over-long abstracts in the listings. Most formatting in the abstracts, such as new titles and new paragraphs will be lost. We will try to reproduce subscripts, superscripts and any unusual characters in the HTML but please do not include any more complicated equations. If you wish to show italics or bold typing or other special formatting you should provide your own HTML version with the markup. You can put this in the e-mail as text. Where abstracts are too hard for us to reproduce we may just replace with a note referring to the PDF version.
You may compress your document using zip, gzip etc., but it usually does not help much.
The submitted work must be completely contained in one PDF document. It cannot include any extra files such as figures.
For very large documents you can send a URL link to a copy of the PDF instead of an attachment. Anything up to about 5 MBytes can usually be sent as an e-mail attachment but that may vary dependent upon your e-mail host.
If you have more than one e-print to submit or replace, use a separate email for each one.
We cannot make links from viXra.org to author sites, other than any in the PDF.
The best way to prepare mathematical documents is with TeX or LaTeX. There are free packages available for most popular platforms, e.g. MiKTeX for Windows.
Please do not submit lots of short papers with a similar idea. Combine them into one larger e-print. Your readers will appreciate it.
It is perfectly acceptable to submit e-prints to both viXra.org and to arXiv.org or other archives. However, if you submit for publication in a commercial journal you should check that the journals terms and conditions do not restrict you to one online copy (Most scientific journals do allow copies of the submitted version to be submitted to archives. They are often unhappy about the posting of updated versions with changes requested by their reviewer before publication in the journal. It is normally OK to update the archive a little while after it has appeared in the journal, but please also avoid using the journals formatting or logo. Sometimes it is a journal requirement that you update the comment to show the citation reference for the published version. However, the exact conditions vary. There is usually something about the policy in the copyright FAQ on the publishers website). If you submit to viXra.org and later decide to limit to one copy elsewhere you can withdraw the e-print from viXra.org and let us know where it is. We will provide a forwarding link.
By submitting your documents to viXra.org you declare that all authors and other copyright owners of the work have given permission for distribution on the website and that you will inform us of any change of conditions.
Please do not use "cc" to copy your submission e-mails to other people's addresses. This could result in discussion replies from other individuals making it more difficult for us to track submission messages. When this happens we mark the e-mail addresses as sources of junk mail and this may cause submissions from those e-mail addresses to be delayed or missed altogether.
Normally we aim to put all e-prints online within 48 hours from submission. If other commitments mean that this will not be possible for a period, then there will be a message in red at the top of this page giving details. Otherwise, if you have not had a confirmation reply within 48 hours you should send us a follow-up query. Where a single submitter submits a large number of papers over a short period we may have to add them gradually to the archive over a more extended period.
Once your e-print is online please check that we did not miss-enter any of the information and let us know if we did.