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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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Self-archiving
Also called 'eprint archiving'. The practice of scholars putting their work online on institutional or individual archives. Authors first put an unrefereed preprint into the archive. Then they submit the article to a peer-reviewed journal. If it is accepted and the author can negotiate the right to self-archive, then he or she puts the refereed and possibly revised postprint into the archive. If it is accepted but the publisher does not permit self-archiving, the author puts only the 'corrigenda' (the differences between the online preprint and the published version of the article) into the archive.
[Source: Guide to the open access movement [link: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/guide.htm], Peter Suber]
Site licence
In electronic publishing, a means of purchasing online access to journal issues and/or archives. Site licences are generally available for purchase by institutions, libraries, library consortia, and/or governments.
Information Services
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Daily insights from the tenth public communication of science conference in Sweden
