Many researchers design websites that contain a list of their research articles, and possibly also with links to the full text of many of those articles. In this note I want to promote a different although related concept, namely the idea that a website itself ought to be considered as a publication provided that it is designed in the appropriate fashion. I propose to use the term publisite for a website that is organized and used in this way.
Publication websites, or publisites also need such mechanisms in order to serve properly for communication and archive of research results. It is however not possible to transfer the review system and the citation conventions unchanged; they have to be adapted to the characteristic properties of publisites, namely, that they are potentially large aggregates of information where components are added and changed at the scale of months and years.
The forthcoming, full text of the present webpage will contain proposals for how this can be done.
A larger example of a publisite with the same characteristics is provided by the author's CAISOR website.
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