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weblication en · NOUN · etymology 1

Blend of Web + publication.

(countable, uncountable) The act of publishing on the World Wide Web; a publication on the web.
- 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).
- 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. 1997 March, David Atherton, David Steffen, Sinai Yarus, “Scientific publishing : Paper or perish”, in Science Tribune:
(countable, uncountable) A platform for publication on the WWW
- 2013, "Weblication," Urban Dictionary An online transmedia platform, that includes professional journals, podcasts, news briefs, image galleries, and features, that reflect specific expertise.

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Blend of Web + application.

(neologism) A computer application served on the World Wide Web.
- 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 2007, Norshuhada Shiratuddin, Zanariah Idrus, Web Form Design Checklist Based on the Three-Layer Model:
- weblication : Jargon for "web application." Do not use. It could be confused with "web publication." 2012, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Manual of Style, Pearson Education:

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