My publication contract allows me to put the “final author’s version” of my article in an institutional repository, but not the “publisher’s version.” What are these different versions?
These discussions generally distinguish three versions of an article. The “pre-print” is the version you submit initially to a publisher and which is sent out for peer-review. The final author’s version (sometimes called a post-print) is the revised version that you create after the peer-review process and in response to comments from reviewers. This is the version that will usually be deposited in DukeSpace under this policy (and many publishers already allow this under their existing publication contracts). The publisher’s version is the article as it appears in the journal, after it is copyedited and formatted by the publisher. Publishers are inconsistent about whether they allow deposit of the publisher’s version in an institutional repository; some allow and even encourage it while others forbid it. In any case, there should be little substantive difference between the published version and the final author’s versions that will be available in DukeSpace. DukeSpace will accept the
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