To publish is to make publicly known, and in reference to text and images, it can mean distributing paper copies to the public, or putting the content on a website.
The word publication means the act of publishing, and it also means any writing of which copies are published, and any website. Among publications are books, and periodicals, the latter including magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers.
In Taxonomy the publicon of the description of a taxon has to comply with some rules.
Financial Calculus - By Martin Baxter and Andrew Rennie (CUP, 1996). Contents, preface, errata, supplementary text, reviews.
Pricing and Hedging of Derivative Securities - By Lars Tyge Nielsen. A textbook in continuous-time finance theory, Oxford University Press, 1999. Preface, introduction, table of contents, index.
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