Q. Do publishers accept manuscripts that have been posted as preprints?

Pre-prints are considered a legitimate way to make research available as quickly as possible. There are several benefits of preprints:

• Make your work publicly available as soon as possible.
• Get feedback from peers.
• Make your work citable as early as possible.

Most major publishers accept pre-prints for publication including Spring and Elsevier:

• Elsevier: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/clarification-of-our-policy-on-prior-publication
• Springer: https://www.springer.com/authors/manuscript+guidelines?SGWID=0-40162-6-795324-0