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The Archives collects many MIT publications. Research publications are a distinct subset. They are series of faculty research reports published directly in series by MIT's departments, labs, and centers (DLCs). Since each issue in a series has a unique title and constitutes a freestanding report on recently completed faculty research, research pubs are considered to be monographic series. The series titles of research pubs typically contain the words "report," "technical report," or "working papers." In most cases, "technical reports" or "reports" are published by DLCs in science or engineering; "working papers" by DCLs in social science, management, or public policy. Like pre-prints and other species of gray literature, many research pubs subsequently appear as articles in peer-reviewed journals.
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