A preprint (less commonly a publication ) is a scientific publication (usually of a small volume) devoted to a topic that the author wants to familiarize with interested persons and specialists (to discuss and / or clarify the results of work), published before the publication of an article in a peer-reviewed scientific magazine or before the release of a full monograph .
As a rule, preprints are not reviewed before publication, therefore they may contain errors and therefore are often not taken into account in reports as publications.
An electronic preprint (a preprint posted on the Internet ) is sometimes called an e-print .
Preprint Collections
The most famous and significant collection of electronic preprints in physics, astronomy, mathematics, biology and computer science is the server arXiv.org (pronounced [archives]), created by Paul Ginsparg in 1991 , with more than 1.4 million preprints.
Among other collections of preprints are also widely known:
- Citeseer
- Preprints of the IPM RAS [1]
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics
- Munich Personal RePEc Archive
- Social Science Research Network eLibrary
- bioRxiv