How to use ShelfHub
Paper IDs, deposits, and linking from other servers
Paper ID and DOI
When a deposit is published, ShelfHub assigns an arXiv-style identifier such as 2609.00012 (year, month, sequence).
If you later obtain a DOI through Crossref or a journal, put that DOI on the canonical paper (arXiv, SSRN, or the journal) and link from there to the ShelfHub mini-report.
What you may deposit
Full preprints are welcome. So are in-progress research documents, including:
- The main paper
- Supplementary papers and data notes
- Mini-reports and mini-papers
- Project prospectuses and research plans
- Pre-research written before the main study
- Reports drafted or edited with an LLM Deep Research workflow
Authoring tools we explicitly support
- OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research and PRISM-style OpenAI research/writing workflows
- The Gemini web app and Gemini Deep Research
- Other AI chat or agent apps used to draft or revise the main text, auxiliary papers, mini-reports, or pre-research
You remain responsible for rights, accuracy, and citations. See the Terms for the AI submission policy.
Using ShelfHub with arXiv, SSRN, and journals
You may post the main paper on arXiv, SSRN, or a journal. We encourage it.
From that main paper you may link to ShelfHub mini-reports, mini-papers, pre-research, and Deep Research notes. Quote the ShelfHub ID and URL (for example https://shelfhub.org/paper/2609.00012).
On ShelfHub you may also point readers to the arXiv ID or SSRN page of the main paper.
How to submit
- Create an account and verify email.
- Use the submit page for title, abstract, authors, field, and PDF.
- A Paper ID is assigned at publish time. No DOI is assigned.
- Later edits are versioned. Open older PDFs from the version picker and Version history on the paper page.
Progress projects
Projects (after login) hold YAML configs, tasks, and collaborators while a paper is being written. They are not the public preprint. Deposit the finished PDF through the normal submit flow.
Closing an account
You can close an account from the settings screen. Published papers and PDFs remain. We keep the registered email address, do not show it publicly, and do not allow a new account with the same address. Sign-in stops. If a paper must be removed, delete it on that paper’s edit screen before you close the account. Read section 9 of the Terms, Closing an account and what remains, and the privacy policy.
API
Machine access lives at /api/v1/. Authenticate with a session, a JWT, or an API key via Authorization: Bearer. See the API section on the home page.