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Open Archives promotes and encourages the development of author self-archiving solutions (also commonly called e-print systems).
Examples: arXiv.org, www.netprints.org, authors’ homepages
Papers usually not peer-reviewed prior to publication (post-publication peer-review).
e-print archives exemplify a more equitable and efficient model for disseminating research results and (other than e.g. BiomedCentral) work completely independent from commercial publishers.
Proposes several interoperability standards, e.g. Metadata Harvesting