Meaning of weblication | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.
   countable, uncountable
2. A computer application served on the World Wide Web.
   neologism
3. A platform for publication on the WWW
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Weblication is used in this article to describe any dissemination of information which occurs primarily via the Internet or World Wide Web. While weblications may be downloaded to local computers or magnetic media and/or printed onto paper by individual readers, this is secondary to their initial distribution.”

“2000 J.Q. Johnson, "Weblication & Future Publication," email posted to WEB4LIB list, 6 May 2000. My own feeling is that the clear trend is towards less restriction on prior informal sharing of research results, and the inclusion of unreferreed weblication as something allowed by more and more journals.”

“2013, "Weblication," Combination: Innovate your language weblication : A publication that is first published on the internet (web).”

“2013, "Weblication," Urban Dictionary An online transmedia platform, that includes professional journals, podcasts, news briefs, image galleries, and features, that reflect specific expertise.”

“The rapid growth of weblications—application-oriented software delivered as a service over the Web—has revealed a lack of effective guidelines for their design and implementation”

“weblication : Jargon for "web application." Do not use. It could be confused with "web publication."”

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