What are the different versions of scholarly articles like pre-prints and post-prints?
The scholarly publication process results in multiple versions of each journal article:
- Version of record: The formatted, published version in a journal. This version usually has a registered digital object identifier (DOI), and is also called the "final version" or "publisher's version."
- Post-print/ Author's accepted manuscript: The last version an author submitted that was accepted by a journal after the peer-review process. This is the version that contains all the content but it has not been formatted or copyedited by the journal.
- Pre-print/ Working paper/ Submitted paper: Versions of a paper before peer review.
These versions are important to open access self-archiving rules for institutional repositories like the SUNY Open Access Repository (SOAR). You can use Sherpa/Romeo to check the versioning and embargo rules for depositing your article in SUNY Oneonta's SOAR collections.
The SUNY Oneonta Open Access Policy commits SUNY Oneonta authors to deposit a version of each peer-reviewed journal article in a digital repository like SOAR, unless the author requests to waive/opt out. The deposited work will be made freely and openly available to the public.
To learn more, contact openaccess@oneonta.edu.