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a postprint is a digital draft of a research journal article
after it has been peer reviewed. A digital draft before peer
review is called a preprint. Jointly, postprints and preprints
are called eprints.[1]  Expressed in the CrossRef
terminology,[2] any draft starting from the author's original
version but prior to the accepted version is a preprint, whereas
any draft from the accepted version onward, including the
version of record or definitive work, is a postprint.  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 harves