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Definitions
List of terms for Science publishing
Scientific information is crucial for a variety of stakeholders, but communicating science poses a challenge for all.
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Eprint
An electronic preprint or postprint. The term was coined in 1992, and originally referred only to electronic preprints. Paul Ginsparg [founder of arXiv [link: http://arxiv.org/] , an open-access repository of physics papers] later generalised it to mean author self-archived electronic preprints or postprints.
[Source: Guide to the open access movement, Peter Suber]
Eprint archiving
See 'Self-archiving'.
Information Services
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