What is a preprint server?
A preprint server is used by scholars to circulate new work. A preprint is an early version of new work often in preliminary form. The archive is intended to supplement or replace an older mechanism for circulation of new work. An author used to prepare multiple copies of a new manuscript and mail it to scholars for their information and for response. Greater circulation can be achieved by posting on the archive at no cost to the author. Individual scholars can then be alerted efficiently to the preprint by informing them in a brief email of the preprint’s unique ID code. Alternatively, scholars may subscribe to receive regular email updates of postings to the archive in areas of the philosophy of science of interest to them.
