Information provided here may be unintentionally inaccurate and may change over time. Consult websites of journals/publishers, or write to them for clarifications.

Policies of journals regarding preprints varies, with more than a third of publishers accepting preprints (see). Many do not consider preprints as prior publications. Some require that editors be made aware of preprints when submitting manuscripts. Some allow preprints only on university servers.

Policies regarding citing preprints vary, with some treating preprints as personal communication, leaving upto reviewers their weightage when evaluating manuscripts.

Below are some journals/publishers grouped as per their preprint policies.

Pro-preprint journals/publishers
Annual Reviews
ASBMB (JBC, MCP, etc.)
ASCB (MBC, etc.)
BioMed Central (BMC)
Biophysical Society (Biophysical J, etc.)
Blackwell Publishing (J Neurochem, etc.)
BMJ Publishing Group (Heart, etc.)
Cambridge University Press (Parasitology, etc.)
Company of Biologists (Development, JCS, etc.)
CRC Press (part of Taylor & Francis)
Elsevier (except journals of Cell Press)
Humana Press (Mol Neurobiol, etc.)
Karger (Oncology, etc.)
Kluwer (part of Springer)
Nature Publishing Group (Nature, The EMBO Journal, etc.)
Oxford Journals (Nucleic Acids Research, Glycobiology, etc.)
PNAS
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Routledge (part of Taylor & Francis)
SAGE (Lupus, etc.)
Springer
Taylor & Francis (Amyloid, etc.)
Wiley (BioEssays, Cytometry, etc.)
World Scientific (J Bioinform Comp Bio, etc.)

Anti-preprint

Americal Chemical Society (JACS, etc.)
American Physiological Society (J Neurophysiol, etc.)
American Society of Hematology (Blood, etc.)
American Society for Microbiology (MCB, etc.)
Cell and sister journals (Neuron, Immunity, etc.)
Genome Research
IUPAC (Pure Appl Chem, etc.)
Rockefeller U. Press (JCB, JEM, etc.)

Not clear (possibly pro?)

American Association of Cancer Research
Academic Journals
FASEB (FASEB J, etc.)
Molecular Systems Biology
Science
Society for Neuroscience (J Neurosci, etc.)

Resources

1. List from the SHERPA/RoMEO project
2. Steve Harnad’s list at eprints.org
3. Nodalpoint wiki list