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News, views and information about science, technology and the developing world
Definitions
List of terms for Science publishing
Scientific information is crucial for a variety of stakeholders, but communicating science poses a challenge for all.
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Eprint
An electronic preprint or postprint. The term was coined in 1992, and originally referred only to electronic preprints. Paul Ginsparg [founder of arXiv [link: http://arxiv.org/] , an open-access repository of physics papers] later generalised it to mean author self-archived electronic preprints or postprints.
[Source: Guide to the open access movement, Peter Suber]
Eprint archiving
See 'Self-archiving'.
Information Services
Reporting risk: what can we learn from Vietnam?
There is much to learn from Vietnamese approaches to reporting science and risk, says Son Kim Phan
PCST conference blog
Daily insights from the tenth public communication of science conference in Sweden
