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List of terms for Science publishing

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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'.

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