• Content-related questions
  • How are the contents of PhilArchive and PhilPapers related?
  • What can I archive on PhilArchive?
  • How can I add a work (to PhilArchive, to such and such list)?
  • Do you respect copyright?
  • How can I increase my downloads?
  • How are works selected for the list on the front page?
• Questions about other features
  • How does searching on PhilArchive work?
  • Can I receive email alerts of new PhilArchive submissions?
  • How do PhilArchive categories and categorization tools work?
  • How does relevance work in advanced search?
  • Are there any restrictions regarding downloading from PhilArchive
• Privacy
• What do you to protect my private data?
• Do you use cookies on your sites?
• Who counts as a 'research affiliate' for the purposes of data sharing?
• What is your data retention policy for third party apps used on the site? e.g. Facebook, Zoom
• What data are you collecting and processing from Facebook if I choose to use this log in method?
• How do I close or delete my profile and data?

Content-related questions

PhilArchive contains all and only the items indexed on PhilPapers for which we have a local copy. Whether you upload your paper to PhilPapers or PhilArchive, it goes to the same place and will be available through both sites.

Most publishers allow authors to self-archive at least pre-prints of their papers. You can check your publisher's policy as part of the upload process or on this page.

We accept works of all types (articles, books, dissertations) in all areas of academic philosophy, so long as they are of professional quality

It is highly recommended to archive your papers if permitted by the publisher. Not only does this support a transition towards open access publishing, but this significantly increases the accessibility of your work to users without institutional access, be it due to travel, mobile browsing, a lack of affiliation, or just a lack of organization. People often turn around when they hit the "pay wall" even if they could in principle access the article through their institution. In addition, we are currently developing new features such as citation linking and keyword extraction that will allow us to better link archived papers to one another. We cannot apply these techniques to papers for which we do not have the text.

To add your work to PhilArchive, just click 'Submit' at the top of the page.

Do you respect copyright?

Yes, PhilArchive fully respects all applicable copyright laws. See our terms and conditions for information on our copyright compliance policy.

Make sure that your works all have associated abstracts, categories, keywords, and links. Automatically indexed papers often lack some of this information. This tool can help you discover incomplete records.

How are works selected for the list on the front page?

This list includes (in order of recency) non-review items written in English that have been recently uploaded for the first time and that meet certain automatically computed indicators of quality, including "pro" status of the author or the work (see the PhilPapers FAQ). At most one item per author per day is included.

Questions about other features

See our search help page for details.

We don't support this per se, but PhilPapers email alerts include all PhilArchive content and can be tailored to scan for open access content. We encourage you to use PhilPapers to monitor PhilArchive. See this page for some tips on how to do this.

See our categorization page for details.

In "more advanced" mode, the relevance of an entry is the number of times search keywords appear in it weighted according to the specified relevance of these keywords. An excellent indicator weights 3, a good one 1, and an indicator of irrelevance -1. An occurrence of a keyword in an article's title counts for twice as much.

The minimal relevance parameter is mainly useful for fine-tuning searches linked to categories (here the "show low threshold entries" link on the category's option page is helpful).

In "normal" mode, relevance is computed in part as a function of word frequency in the database and can range from very low to very high. You will get a feel for how it works by using it.

The general PhilPapers Foundation term and conditions apply regarding scraping, but this allows you to download as many metadata records and papers as you want using our OAI-PMH interface.

Privacy

The PhilPapers Foundation (Phil*) is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust, and accordingly maintains the following privacy policy to protect your personal information. We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline. Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as demographics and emails), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for 'https' at the beginning of the address of the Web page. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. We do not sell your data or personal information. This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

This site uses cookies only during the log in session and for Google Analytics. Please see our terms & conditions for details regarding the privacy implications.

Only a few individuals that work closely with the Centre for Digital Philosophy staff on research projects and that have agreed to keep all data we share with them confidential.

Information about you is collected from third party or public sources or that we receive from companies that partner with us to provide our services. In general, we will retain your personal information for the length of time reasonably needed to fulfill the purposes (including for as long as need to provide you with the services), unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We will also retain and use your information for as long as necessary to resolve disputes and/or enforce our rights and agreements. You can request the removal of this data at any time.

When you choose to use Facebook as your method of logging in, we redirect you to Facebook's permissions. We only retain your email address for the purpose of logging in. While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. We do not sell your data or personal information. You can also choose to revoke our access to your Facebook permissions at any time.

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