What is publication?

摘要

Just as in the modern world there is more than one way of being dead, so there is more than one way of being published. Publication is not a dichoto-mous event: rather it is a continuum. And the academic community should accept this, not resist it. This was one of the main conclusions of a recent workshop in Paris, organised by Unesco, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Council of Scientific Unions, on developing practices and standards for electronic publishing in science.