ChinaXiv Quiz

From now on, this official account will regularly or irregularly publish relevant knowledge questions and answers on preprints, and provide simple answers to some basic questions that everyone cares about preprints and preprint platforms, so as to promote the academic community's understanding of related issues, clarify misunderstandings, and promote Preprint platform construction and preprint new academic exchange.

 

1. What is a preprint?

A preprint is a manuscript (contributed version, accepted manuscript) that has not been strictly peer-reviewed by the author before it is submitted to a journal for publication. Publishing, which provides the author with the right to publish the latest research results on the Internet, and provides the latest and fastest channels for the dissemination and utilization of research results for the academic communication system. The preprint platform can also publish the final version of the journal or publish the typesetting of the paper, that is, postprint. Preprints provide a new type of literature, an important form of output, and an important source of literature information.

2. What is a preprint platform?

The preprint platform is a platform system that accepts authors to submit preprint manuscripts and provides open academic exchange services for these manuscripts. The preprint platform is a diamond open access model, which neither charges authors nor readers. It is a public service mechanism that provides policies, funds and other supports from the government and society. Well-known preprint platforms at home and abroad, such as arXiv established and maintained by the Cornell University Library in the United States, and the "Chinese Academy of Sciences Science and Technology Papers Pre-Publishing Platform" (ChinaXiv) supported by the Science Communication Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and maintained by the Documentation and Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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