Over 60 Scientific Manuscripts by the IAEA Available in New Online Repository

The standard workflow of a publication includes a drafting stage, a review stage and a publication stage.

Preprints are the stage between the final draft version and before publication. The IAEA Preprint Repository contains approved preprints of IAEA publications that have gone through approval and review processes, but they have not been edited or checked, before final layout and production in the official publication.

“We wanted to have an IAEA space where we could make available Agency material that is signed off in provisional form but not yet finalized and published – the primary aim is immediacy of access for researchers,” said Sophia Le Masurier, Head of Publications Marketing and Sales at the IAEA. “We also wanted to have a wider platform where we could eventually showcase other material that the IAEA is generating, including for example, journal articles submitted by IAEA staff to journals published by other publishers. The idea here is to eventually have one encompassing space to access a greater breadth of the Agency’s knowledge outputs.”

The repository records are permanent, with unchanging URLs and can be cited. The content, however, will be updated with links to the final publication, and the preprint pdf replaced by the publication when freely available for download. The preprint pdf will be maintained for publications that are restricted behind a paywall.

As a next step, the repository is foreseen to expand to include preprints of material authored by IAEA staff submitted to external publishing venues. In the future, the IAEA Preprint Repository will also provide space to collect and present material arising from the organization’s coordinated research projects and material presented at IAEA scientific conferences.