&nbsp; A <B>preprint</B> is a draft of a <A title="Scientific paper" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_paper" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#000000>scientific paper</FONT></A> that has not yet been published in a <A title=Peer-review href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-review" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#000000>peer-reviewed</FONT></A> <A title="Scientific journal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_journal" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#000000>scientific journal</FONT></A>.   <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preprint</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>A few example of preprint servers in other disciplines are:-</DIV>  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV><SPAN id=lw_1172831152_0 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed"><SPAN id=lw_1172831661_0 style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px
 dashed">UK</SPAN></SPAN> e-print archive mirror</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://xxx.soton.ac.uk/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Open Archives Initiative</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.openarchives.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://www.openarchives.org/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>PuMed Central</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.pumedcentral.nih.gov/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://www.pumedcentral.nih.gov/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>American Mathematical Society Preprint Server</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.ams.org/preprints/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://www.ams.org/preprints/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>CERN preprint Server</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://preprints.cern.ch/"
 target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://preprints.cern.ch</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Chemical Physics Preprint Database</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.chem.brown.edu/chem-ph.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://www.chem.brown.edu/chem-ph.html</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Chemistry Preprint Server</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.chemweb.com/preprint" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://www.chemweb.com/preprint</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Economics Working paper Archive</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://econwpa.wustl.edu/wpawelcome.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://econwpa.wustl.edu/wpawelcome.html</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>SISSA preprint server</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://babbage.sissa.it/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT
 color=#003399>http://babbage.sissa.it/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>High Energy Physics Preprint Database</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://wwwspires.slac.stanford.edu/find/hep" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://wwwspires.slac.stanford.edu/find/hep</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Nitride Semiconductor Research preprint server</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/preprints/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://nsr.mij.mrs.org/preprints/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Clinical Medicine and Health</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://clinmed.netprints.org/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://clinmed.netprints.org/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Department of Energy's preprint Network</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.osti.gov/preprint/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT
 color=#003399>http://www.osti.gov/preprint/</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Theoretical Chemistry preprints</DIV>  <DIV><A href="http://www.chemie.uniregensburg.de/pub/preprint/GENINFO.html" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://www.chemie.uniregensburg.de/pub/preprint/GENINFO.html</FONT></A></DIV>  <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>  <DIV>Regards,</DIV>  <DIV>S.Sripriya</DIV>  <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV><p>&#32;

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