ErgonXiv is an open archive for early research in nanotechnology, advanced materials, geothermal, solar, wind, renewables, economics, and new technologies. It exists to make research visible quickly, with a permanent citable DOI, before or alongside formal peer review.

ErgonXiv is not a journal.It performs screening, not peer review. Posting is not an endorsement of a work's validity, conclusions, or quality. Readers must evaluate preprints critically and look for a later peer-reviewed version of record.

ErgonXiv is founded and financially supported by GEIOS Technologies, the disclosed founding sponsor. It operates under a strict independence firewall: GEIOS does not review, approve, prioritize, delay, or reject any individual submission.

Submissions authored or co-authored by GEIOS-affiliated researchers are screened under the same criteria as any other and are explicitly flagged for conflict-of-interest review by a moderator with no GEIOS affiliation. GEIOS funds infrastructure, DOI/registration costs, and operations only — it does not purchase placement, visibility, or editorial outcomes.

A submission is in scope if it is an original research output in one of the eight subject areas, scholarly in nature with a methods/evidence basis, authored by or with the consent of all listed authors, and work the authors have the right to post under the chosen license.

Out of scope:

• Marketing material, product brochures, press releases, or primarily promotional white papers.
• Opinion or editorial pieces with no research basis.
• Work outside the eight subject areas.
• Unsupported languages, or unreadable/corrupt files.

Every submission is screened by a human curator. This is a scope, integrity, and format check — not an assessment of scientific correctness. A submission is accepted if all of the following hold:

1. In scope.
2. Recognizably scientific/scholarly — has a question, method, and evidence or argument.
3. Authorship is legitimate and the corresponding author is identified.
4. No obvious plagiarism; properly attributes prior work.
5. No undisclosed major conflicts; funding and competing interests are stated.
6. No ethical or safety red flags.
7. Files compliant — one manuscript PDF ≤ 15 MB; figures within limits; files open and render.
8. Metadata complete — title, abstract, authors and affiliations, subjects, keywords, license.

Moderators explicitly do not judge whether the science is correct, whether conclusions are supported, statistical validity, or novelty. Those are for readers and peer review.

• Dangerous content enabling weapons of mass destruction or clear public-safety hazards.
• Plagiarized or fabricated work, or research based on evidently falsified data.
• Content violating others' rights — copyright infringement, confidential data, or personal data published without consent.
• Unethical research lacking required approvals, or harmful/discriminatory content.
• Pseudoscience presented as established fact without a methods/evidence basis. Legitimate hypothesis papers are allowed if framed honestly. Dual-use research is permitted only where scholarly value clearly outweighs misuse risk.

All submissions must declare funding sources and competing interests. GEIOS-affiliated submissions are automatically routed to a moderator without GEIOS affiliation and receive no expedited handling. Moderators recuse themselves from any submission where they are an author, collaborator, competitor, or have a personal/financial relationship with the authors.

Authors may post new versions; each receives its own DOI, while a concept DOI resolves to the latest. Earlier versions remain permanently accessible. Because DOIs are permanent, withdrawal means a record is marked Withdrawn with a public notice and reason — the metadata and tombstone remain. Approving a submission triggers permanent DOI registration and is treated as irreversible.

Authors retain copyright and choose an open license at submission (default CC BY 4.0). Metadata is released under CC0. By submitting, authors confirm they have the right to post and license the work, and grant ErgonXiv a non-exclusive right to host and distribute it. Posting a preprint does not prevent later journal submission.

An author may appeal a decline once, in writing, within 30 days; the decision is reviewed by a curator not involved in the original decision and is final. Anyone may report a published record for plagiarism, ethics, safety, or rights concerns. Complaints are acknowledged within 2 business days and investigated.

We collect only the data needed to operate the archive: your name, email, optional ORCID iD and affiliation, the submissions you create, and basic usage metrics (views and downloads, aggregated). We do not sell personal data or share it with the sponsor for marketing.

Authentication is handled via ORCID OAuth or email magic-link; we store a session token and, for ORCID sign-ins, your verified ORCID iD. Published record metadata (including author names and ORCID iDs) is public and released under CC0. You may request deletion of your account; note that DOIs and the public scholarly record are permanent and cannot be removed.

By using ErgonXiv you agree to submit only work you have the right to post, to provide accurate metadata, and to comply with the screening and prohibited-content policies above. You retain copyright in your work and grant ErgonXiv a non-exclusive right to host and distribute it under your chosen license.

The service is provided "as is" without warranty. ErgonXiv performs screening, not peer review, and is not liable for the scientific validity of posted preprints. We may remove or tombstone content that violates these terms. Continued use after changes to these terms constitutes acceptance.