postprint

A digital draft before peer review is called a preprint.

Postprints are also sometimes called accepted author manuscripts (AAMs), because they are the version accepted by the journal after the author has addressed the peer reviewer comments.{{Cite web|url=http://libfaq.nus.edu.sg/faq/257412|title=What is pre-print, submitted version, post-print, accepted version, and publisher's PDF? - Library FAQs|website=libfaq.nus.edu.sg|language=en|access-date=2020-02-05}} Jointly, postprints and preprints are called eprints.{{cite book |last=Harnad |first=Stevan |author-link=Stevan Harnad |year=2003 |chapter=Electronic Preprints and Postprints |chapter-url=http://cogprints.org/3019/ |title=Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science |volume=LXVII |publisher=Marcel Dekker}}

Postprints are variously referred to by different publishers as pre-proofs, author's original version and variations of these.{{Cite web|title=What is a pre-print, submitted version, post-print, accepted version, and publisher's PDF? |url=https://libfaq.nus.edu.sg/faq/257412|access-date=2021-01-18|website=nus.edu.sg|publisher=National University of Singapore |last=Wendy|first=Thun|date=2020|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Pre-Print, Post-Print or Offprint? A guide to publication versions, permissions and the digital repository|url=https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=http://calstatela.libguides.com/c.php?g=767552&p=5505471&httpsredir=1&article=1001&context=digirep_outreach|access-date=2021-01-18|website=iastate.edu|publisher=Iowa State University|date=2013|last=Inefuku|first=Harrison|language=en}}

After typesetting by a journal, authors will often be provided with proofs (the draft of the final formatting) and finally the version that is published is called the published/publisher's version.{{Cite web|url=https://researchguides.library.brocku.ca/OA/articleversioning|title=Research Guides: Scholarly Communication and Open Access: Pre-prints, post-prints and final articles: what's the difference|last=Yates|first=Elizabeth|website=researchguides.library.brocku.ca|language=en|access-date=2020-02-05}}

The term postprint used to also refer to the formatted publishers version,{{Cite web|url=http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/glossary.html|title=Publisher's glossary|date=2011-08-30|website=crossref.org|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830003949/http://www.crossref.org/02publishers/glossary.html|archive-date=2011-08-30}} however usage has narrowed to refer only to the current definition of accepted but unformatted.

Journal publication licenses typically claim copyright over the typeset and formatted version, but permit authors to release the postprint version as open access (self-archiving).{{Cite journal|last=Inefuku|first=Harrison|date=2013-01-14|title=Pre-Print, Post-Print or Offprint? A guide to publication versions, permissions and the digital repository|url=https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/digirep_outreach/2|journal=Digital Repository Outreach and Workshops|publisher=Iowa State University}} This is often termed green open access, and enables access and reuse of material even in paywalled subscription journals (typically under a creative commons license). Permission by the journal to release a postprint may be immediate or after an embargo period, with licensing terms for most journals collected in the Sherpa/Romeo database.

Since the advent of the Open Archives Initiative, preprints and postprints have been deposited in institutional repositories, which are interoperable because they are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

Eprints are at the heart of the open access initiative to make research freely accessible online. Eprints were first deposited or self-archived in arbitrary websites and then harvested by virtual archives such as CiteSeer (and, more recently, Google Scholar), or they were deposited in central disciplinary archives such as arXiv or PubMed Central.

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