Project e-HD: an archiving system for electronic documents related to High Dilution research

Peer-review journals and indexation agencies have an important role in the society as they certify the scientific common sense. However, they represent the edge-of-the-iceberg of the all produced knowledge. Within the “underwater production” there are many ideas, incomplete theoretical proposals and suggestions for new experimental models, some of them interesting, others more limited and a further group untenable. In common all of them are left aside and hidden from the most of people, including scientists. This article introduces a new initiative dedicated to the archiving of electronic documents (e-doc) referred to the High Dilution research, and was named as e-HD. It is opened to pre- and post-prints, lecture’s slides, movies, institutional websites and all relevant e-doc related to High Dilutions. e-HD is one more attempt to insert the High Dilution research in the scientific scenario giving visibility to all contributions in this field. While not substituting a peer-review journals, it can be used as a first step to refine preprints through open discussions before a more elaborated article’s version is done, aiming the final publication in peer-review journals.