A
postprint is a digital draft of a
researchResearch can be defined to be search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of...
journal article after it has been
peer reviewPeer review is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review...
ed. A draft before peer review is called a
preprintA preprint is a draft of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.-Role of preprints:Publication of manuscripts in a peer-reviewed journal often takes weeks, months or even years from the time of initial submission, because manuscripts must undergo...
. Postprints may sometimes be the same as the published version, depending on the publisher.
Since the
adventAdvent is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus; in other words, the period immediately before Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday. The Eastern churches...
of the
Open Archives InitiativeThe Open Archives Initiative is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives containing digital content . It allows people to harvest metadata...
, preprints and postprints have been deposited in Institutional Repositories, which are interoperable because they are compliant with the
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata HarvestingOAI-PMH is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. It is used to harvest the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives...
.
Stevan Harnadthumb|right|Professor Stevan HarnadProfessor Stevan Harnad is a cognitive scientist.He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology...
as propose the following "equation"
- Preprints + postprints = eprints
EprintAn eprint is a digital version of a research document that is accessible online, whether from a local Institutional, or...
s are at the heart of the Open Access initiative to make research freely accessible online.
A
postprint is a digital draft of a
researchResearch can be defined to be search for knowledge or any systematic investigation to establish facts. The primary purpose for applied research is discovering, interpreting, and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of...
journal article after it has been
peer reviewPeer review is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field. Peer review requires a community of experts in a given field, who are qualified and able to perform impartial review...
ed. A draft before peer review is called a
preprintA preprint is a draft of a scientific paper that has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.-Role of preprints:Publication of manuscripts in a peer-reviewed journal often takes weeks, months or even years from the time of initial submission, because manuscripts must undergo...
. Postprints may sometimes be the same as the published version, depending on the publisher.
Since the
adventAdvent is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus; in other words, the period immediately before Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday. The Eastern churches...
of the
Open Archives InitiativeThe Open Archives Initiative is an attempt to build a "low-barrier interoperability framework" for archives containing digital content . It allows people to harvest metadata...
, preprints and postprints have been deposited in Institutional Repositories, which are interoperable because they are compliant with the
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata HarvestingOAI-PMH is a protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. It is used to harvest the metadata descriptions of the records in an archive so that services can be built using metadata from many archives...
.
Stevan Harnadthumb|right|Professor Stevan HarnadProfessor Stevan Harnad is a cognitive scientist.He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology...
as propose the following "equation"
- Preprints + postprints = eprints
EprintAn eprint is a digital version of a research document that is accessible online, whether from a local Institutional, or...
s are at the heart of the Open Access initiative to make research freely accessible online. Eprints were first deposited or
self-archivedSelf-archiving involves depositing a free copy of a digital document on the World Wide Web in order to provide open access to it. The term usually refers to the self-archiving of peer reviewed research journal and conference articles as well as theses, deposited in the author's own institutional...
in arbitrary websites and then harvested by virtual archives such as
citeseerCiteSeer was a public search engine and digital library for scientific and academic papers. It is being replaced by CiteSeerx. It was created by researchers Steve Lawrence, Kurt Bollacker and Lee Giles while they were at the NEC Research Institute , Princeton, New Jersey, USA...
(and, lately,
Google ScholarGoogle Scholar is a freely-accessible Web search engine that indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes most peer-reviewed online journals of the world's largest scholarly...
), or they were deposited in central disciplinary archives such as
ArxivThe arXiv is an archive for electronic preprints of scientific papers in the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, quantitative biology and statistics which can be accessed via the world wide web. In many fields of mathematics and physics, almost all scientific papers are placed on...
or
PubMed CentralPubMed Central is a free digital database of full-text scientific literature in biomedical and life sciences.It grew from the online Entrez PubMed biomedical literature search system. PubMed Central was developed by the U.S. National Library of Medicine as an online archive of biomedical journal...
.