Post your manuscript the moment it is ready. A moderator screens it — scope, formatting, language, completeness, integrity — then it goes live open access, with a permanent link and a public record that stays.
Every version separately citable · signed community review on every preprint · withdrawn work is marked, never erased.
Dr. Ayesha Demo, Dr. Omar Rehman
We present a reinforcement-learning framework for adaptive beamforming in dense low-power IoT deployments, reducing energy per delivered bit by 34% in simulation across three interference regimes.
One platform carries your work from first posting through to peer-reviewed publication, and keeps the two records linked.
Move your preprint into a conference or journal here without re-entering a thing — and when it is published, the two records link automatically.
Every screened preprint gets a permanent article page and a Crossref DOI-ready record, so it can be cited the day it goes live.
Post revised versions with change notes. The page always serves the newest file; every earlier version stays downloadable and citable.
Views, downloads and citation counts, shown on your article page and updated as they come in.
Even in the rare case of withdrawal, the page stays public with a formal dated notice - marked, never erased - so your record and its identifier keep resolving forever.
OAI-PMH metadata for harvesters, correctly-labelled BibTeX/RIS exports, RSS feeds — your work travels beyond this site.
Format your manuscript — our template has every required section ready.
Sign in, pick a collection, upload your files, and confirm the posting declarations.
A moderator works through a recorded checklist — scope, formatting, language, completeness, integrity — and your preprint is typically published within 15 days. Not peer review. If something needs fixing, you get their observations and simply upload a corrected file.
Your preprint goes public on its permanent page. If the collection has a posting fee, it goes live the moment payment clears.
Platform members review your preprint under their real names. You control it from your author account — approve each review, reply publicly, or turn reviews off.
Posting is the moment your preprint becomes part of the scholarly record. Before that moment you are completely free; after it, the record protects everyone who cites you.
While your submission is in screening it is private and entirely yours: edit it or delete it outright, no questions, no trace. Deletion stops being possible the moment the preprint is posted.
Found an error? Work moved on? Post a new version with a change note. The page always serves the newest file, earlier versions stay in the history, and each is separately citable. This is the fix for almost everything.
For serious problems only - misconduct, an error no new version can fix, a danger readers must know about. The page stays public, marked "WITHDRAWN" with a dated explanation, and the file stops being offered. Marked, not erased.
The rarest case: a court order, copyright, privacy or safety. The manuscript and abstract disappear for everyone; a tombstone - title, authors, dated notice - remains so the identifier never goes dark.
Published in a journal later? That is not a withdrawal - it is the point. Your preprint stays online as the free early version and links readers to the version of record.
Posting on this collection is free. Screening decides whether a preprint is posted, and money never enters that decision because there is no money in it. Two things come with it: the publishing infrastructure your preprint sits on, and the review layer on top of it.
Preprint posting is currently free on all Technology Fist collections; where a collection sets a posting fee, the exact amount is shown before you submit. Nothing else is charged — no fee for extra versions, no fee for reviews, no fee to read.
*Only if not yet peer-reviewed and without an existing DOI.
A posted preprint is part of the scholarly record and cannot be completely removed. Withdrawal is exceptional and considered only for:
A withdrawn preprint's page stays public: its title is marked "WITHDRAWN", a dated notice states the ground, and the file stops being offered for download - the record is corrected, never erased, and its identifier keeps resolving. Complete removal happens only for legal reasons (court order, copyright, privacy, public safety) and leaves a tombstone record.
Publication in a journal is never a withdrawal ground. That is the preprint doing its job: the preprint stays online as the free early version and points readers to the version of record - the standard at every major preprint server. Report it from your author page instead.
You keep copyright and choose the license at submission — CC BY 4.0 recommended. By posting you affirm you have the right to post, grant this platform a perpetual non-exclusive license to distribute the work, and understand the permanence rules above.
Planning a patent? Posting counts as public disclosure — file first. Some journals decline manuscripts already posted; check your target journal's policy (Sherpa Romeo lists them).
Tell us from your author page — one form field. The preprint page then points every reader to the version of record, and the link travels into the DOI metadata. Papers peer-reviewed on this platform link up automatically.
A data-availability statement is part of every submission. Deposit your data in a recognised repository where you can, and link it, so a reader is able to check the claims for themselves.
No. Screening checks scope, completeness and integrity — it does not evaluate the science the way peer review does. Every preprint page says so prominently. What you do get is community review: signed, public assessments written by platform members, openly attributed. It is expert opinion and it does not replace an editorial decision.
Any signed-in platform member can write one, always under their real name, affiliation and ORCID, with a competing-interests declaration published alongside. You are in control from your author account: reviews are held for your approval by default, or you can publish them immediately, or turn reviews off. You can reply publicly to any review, and you can withdraw one — a dated notice with your reason stays in its place, so a reader can see what happened.
Because a reader has to be able to weigh what is said. An anonymous comment box attracts spam and drive-by attacks, and gives a reader no way to judge who is speaking or what their stake is. Requiring a named member account keeps reviews accountable to write, while everything stays open to read — you do not need an account to read a single word.
Yes — by its DOI. Citation exports (BibTeX, RIS, and formatted styles) are provided on each article page, correctly labelled as a preprint.
Before it is posted — yes, completely. While your submission is in screening it is private, and you can edit or delete it with one click, no questions asked. After posting — no. A posted preprint is a citable public record that others may already have referenced; that permanence is exactly what makes it count as establishing priority. Found a problem? Post a corrected version — that is the normal, respectable fix. Only the serious grounds listed under Withdrawal above go further, and even then the page stays visible with a dated notice.
No — congratulations, and leave it up! This is the preprint life-cycle working exactly as intended, and it is not a withdrawal ground here or at any major preprint server (arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN all keep the preprint online). Instead, use "Report the published version" on your author page: once a moderator confirms the link, your preprint page carries a "Now published" notice pointing every reader to the version of record, and the relation travels into the citation metadata. Your preprint stays as the free-to-read early version — often the only version readers without a subscription can access.
Most journals welcome preprints; a few do not. Check the journal's policy before posting. Posting establishes priority — the timestamped, DOI-ready proof that you reported the result first.
Preprint posting is currently free on all Technology Fist collections. Where a collection sets a posting fee, it is shown before you submit, is charged only after screening approval, and never influences the screening outcome. Such a fee is a single charge covering both the publication infrastructure (DOI, permanent hosting, versioning, metadata and citation exports) and the community review layer — see the section above. Extra versions, reviews, and reading are never charged for.
No need — request a minor correction from your author page. The file is replaced in place without a new version number.
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