Editing Preprint (section)

{{Short description|Academic paper prior to journal publication}}
{{broader|Manuscript (publishing)}}
[[File:Preprint postprint published.svg|thumb|Typical publishing workflow for an academic journal article ([[Manuscript (publishing)|preprint]], [[postprint]], and [[Version of record|published]]) with [[open access]] sharing rights per [[SHERPA/RoMEO]].]]

In [[academic publishing]], a '''preprint''' is a version of a [[Scholar|scholarly]] or [[scientific paper]] that precedes formal [[peer review]] and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or [[scientific journal]]. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available for [[Free content|free]], before or after a paper is published in a journal.