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"The term “preprint” most often refers to a manuscript that has gone through a peer-review process and now awaits publication in a traditional journal. A preprint accessible over the Web may also be referred to as an “e-print.”
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What are preprints?

"The term “preprint” most often refers to a manuscript that has gone through a peer-review process and now awaits publication in a traditional journal. A preprint accessible over the Web may also be referred to as an “e-print.” Preprints also cover papers that authors have submitted for journal publication, but for which no publication decision has been reached, or even papers electronically posted for peer consideration and comment before submission for publication. In fact, preprints can also be documents that have not been submitted to any journal."
(From Preprint Servers: Pushing the Envelope of Electronic Scholarly Publishing by Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo, Instruction Librarian and Joan G. Packer, Head of Reference. Elihu Burritt Library, Central Connecticut State University. Searcher v. 8, #9, Oct 2000)

 

Major Preprint Sites

  • arXiv.org  
      
    Open access to 494,258 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology and Statistics.
  • E-Print Network  
      
    Originally called the OSTI Preprint Server. These pages contain links to thousands of servers, sites, and documents contributed by individual authors that contain e-print information in discipline areas of interest to the DOE's research activities.
  • Social Sciences Research Network  
      
    All things social sciences. Contains working papers and forthcoming papers as well as some published papers.
  • Virtual Technical Reports Center  
      
    From the University of Maryland - this site provides links to numerous e-prints, preprints and reprints as well as technical reports.
 

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