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Preprints

What are preprints?

Preprint are what papers are called before they are peer reviewed or published.

It may be possible to obtain a preprint of a paper that one wishes to obtain by contacting the author of the article directly.

Search through multiple repositories at once (including arXiv, bioRxiv, etc.):

List of preprint repositories:

Potential repositories of interest:

- arXiv (multidisciplinary repository with nearly 2 million articles):

- bioRxiv (biology focused):

- medRxiv (medical research and health science focused):

- ChemRxiv (chemistry focused):

- Preprints with The Lancet:

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