The Beilstein Archives

About

The Beilstein Archives is a free, open access platform, providing scholars the opportunity to rapidly publish preprints (pre-peer-reviewed manuscripts intended for publication) and related supporting information (code, data sets, movies, spectra, images, etc.).

The Beilstein Archives is part of the non-profit Beilstein-Institut's ongoing commitment to open science and transparent communication in the chemical sciences and related disciplines and provides scholars with a non-commercial platform, managed by a long-standing, reputable non-profit institute. As with all projects supported by the Beilstein-Institut, all publications in the Beilstein Archives are open access and are always available to read, download, and share – no subscription needed.

Why publish or read preprints in the Beilstein Archives?

Rapid dissemination of your early research results
Establish documented priority for your ideas and findings
Read the most recent results in your field and identify trends
Gain constructive, pre-review feedback on your manuscript from peers
Retain copyright to your work with a CC-BY license
Document your work with a DOI within days
Open access – meets requirements of many funders
Long-term archiving in Portico
Deposit your work with a trusted, non-commercial, non-profit institute, dedicated to the betterment of scholarly communication
Document research results evaluated by grant reviewers or review boards in advance of publication
Find potential collaborators

Readers should be aware that preprints in the Beilstein Archives may be draft versions of manuscripts, which might contain some errors, or report on information that has not yet been accepted or reviewed by the scientific community. The preprints are not copyedited, typeset or peer-reviewed.

Scope

The Beilstein Archives is currently limited to publishing preprints of unpublished research results in the fields of organic chemistry and nanotechnology specified below. At this time, we are only publishing preprints that are intended for publication in one of the Beilstein Journals and we are not accepting review articles for consideration as preprints.

Beilstein Archives Subject Areas

Organic Chemistry

Bioorganic chemistry / chemical biology
Catalysis
Chemical methods and reactions
Flow and process chemistry
Green and sustainable chemistry
Materials chemistry
Medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry
Natural products chemistry
Organo main group chemistry
Photochemistry and photovoltaics
Physical organic chemistry
Supramolecular chemistry
Other organic chemistry (unclassified)

Nanotechnology

Nano- and molecular-scale electronics
Nano-biomaterials and bioscience
Nanomagnetics
Nanomaterials, thin films and nanointerfaces
Nanometrology and nanomechanics
Nano-optics
Nanopatterning, self-assembly and nanofabrication
Nanostructures for energy and sensing applications
Nanomedicine
Other nanotechnology (unclassified)

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board of the Beilstein Archives includes leaders in scholarly communication, in addition to scientists who are knowledgeable in the subject areas outlined in the scope.

The Beilstein Archives is managed by the Beilstein-Institut (Managing Editor ) and is advised by the following members of the scientific community who provide feedback on the service and act as advocates:

Prof. Damien Debecker	University of Louvain
Elizabeth Marincola	African Academy of Sciences
Prof. Peter H. Seeberger	Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Prof. Thomas Schimmel	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Dr. Marta Teperek	Delft University of Technology
Prof. Matthew Todd	University College London
Dr. Egon Willighagen	Maastricht University