Editorial commentary
“Pre-print” is a hyphenated spelling of preprint, describing the same concept. This entry is retained as an alternate spelling; the full treatment — including the distinction between the author’s-first-draft usage and the accepted-but-unformatted usage some publishers apply to the term — lives on the canonical page.
Preprint covers the manuscript’s status before formal peer review, its treatment as a form of grey literature, how it differs from the author accepted manuscript and the version of record, and where preprints are commonly deposited.
Also known as
Author's Original (NISO)
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