Share Your Research on APSA Preprints
Upload your Research Group paper, presentation, or poster to APSA Preprints to share your work with peers, obtain a DOI, get feedback, track metrics, and prepare for journal submission. APSA Preprints is a free-to-submit and access, pre-publication platform dedicated to early research outputs in political science and related disciplines.
How to Submit Your Paper
To submit your 2026 APSA Virtual Research Meeting research paper, presentation, or poster:
- Login to APSA Preprints using your APSA account credentials.
- Prior to uploading, be sure to review the APSA Preprints Submission Guide and Author FAQs.
APSA Preprints accepts PDF and PowerPoint files for primary uploads only. Supporting materials such as data, code, appendices, audio or video files, spreadsheets, or links to external repositories may be included as supplementary materials (up to 500MB total).
Why APSA Preprints? Here’s Why…
✓ Increase the visibility and impact of your early research by making it discoverable and citable sooner. Papers on APSA Preprints now have over half a million abstract views, 340,000 downloads, and more than 500 citations!
✓ It’s free, quick, and easy to upload your research paper, presentation, and/or poster, using your APSA ID.
✓ Join a growing repository of scholarship featuring more than 1,000 papers representing every subfield of political science.
✓ Extend the conversation beyond the meeting by using the commenting feature, uploading revised versions of your work, taking advantage of one-click journal submission, and enabling automatic linking once your work is formally published in any journal.
✓ Reach a broader public audience by making your work rapidly and freely available. APSA Preprints have been cited in the New York Times, USA Today, and many other media sources.