We are an organization of colleagues helping colleagues. We draw together people who teach, research, and use information technologies to inform clients (regardless of academic discipline) to share their knowledge with others. Our mission has components both of production and retroduction. All our publications are available free online to everyone regardless of membership status. Our publications are also available in print at very reasonable prices.
Results in strategic security w/ research and education projects in nuclear arms control & global security; conventional arms transfers; proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; information technology for human health; & government info policy.
There are many sources of scientific publishing, all with a long history. In a nutshell, the origins are the scientific academies, societies, and commercial publishers. At UCI, we have the majority of the output from the following publishers: