In
academic publishing, an eprint or e-print is a digital version of a research document (usually a journal article, but could also be a
thesis, conference paper, book chapter, or a book) that is accessible online, usually as
green open access, whether from a local
institutional or
a central
digital repository.
[Swan, A. and Carr, L. (2008).]
Institutions, their repositories and the Web
". ''Serials Review'', 34 (1).
When applied to journal articles, the term "eprints" covers both
preprint
In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset versio ...
s (before
peer review) and
postprints (after peer review).
Digital versions of materials other than research documents are not usually called e-prints, but some other name, such as
e-books.
See also
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Electronic article
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Electronic journal
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Electronic publishing
Electronic publishing (also referred to as publishing, digital publishing, or online publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books, Online magazine, digital magazines, and the development of digital library, digital libraries and catalo ...
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Open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
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Stevan Harnad
Stevan Robert Harnad (Hernád István Róbert, Hesslein István, born June 2, 1945, Budapest) is a Hungarian-born cognitive scientist based in Montreal, Canada.
Education
Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McG ...
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