Working paper

Discussion Papers are usually multi-page publications of scientists who - do not appear in journals or books, but as the project's own publications on their own - - as opposed to articles in journals disseminated, for example via the Internet - virtually in the " self-published ". Often there are also professionally made ​​eg bound or stapled copies that are sent in parallel for distribution via the Internet directly, for example to colleagues. Although they are no publications that have gone through a peer review process, and thus belong to the gray literature but define their own position and to serve as colleagues mandatory information. Colleagues will be called with the discussion papers to comment on this and give as the authors further suggestions and these point out errors or discrepancies in the discussion papers.

Also, discussion papers used in the application in companies in the review of existing standards and the development of processes. For this purpose, existing documentation are reviewed, summarized the possible changes in a discussion paper, and then - often electronic - made ​​available to other interested parties to vote is available. The intended outcome is a further development of the status quo stand, which offers an added value for all parties.

• Science Practice
• Discussion
• Scientific Work