What are preprints and how do they work
What a preprint is, why researchers post one, how repositories like arXiv and bioRxiv work, and what you give up by posting before peer review.
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Page 2 of 3. Articles about scientific events, peer review, proceedings publishing, and associations.
What are conference proceedings? A guide, updated September 2026
What conference proceedings are, whether they count as publications, how they differ from a journal article, and what organizers must decide to publish them.
ISSN vs DOI: what each one identifies, and why both exist
The ISSN identifies the serial title. The DOI identifies the object inside it. How each code is assigned, when it changes, and why most publications carry both.
Proceedings are more relevant than you think
Conference proceedings sit between preprints and journal articles in rigor, and they are how a field tracks its own state of the art. Why they get underrated.
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink: Holocaust and conflict of generations
Bernhard Schlink's novel confronts the generation of Hitler's National-Socialism with the one born after the war. A reading of the Holocaust through Hanna Schmitz and Michael Berg.