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Request to Publish a Technical Report or Technical Note

To publish a Technical Report or Note, do the following three steps:

  (1) Fill out this form and mail it to your department's Publications
      Coordinator.  (The Email addresses of the Publications Coordinators
      for various departments are listed in the file Names-and-Addresses
      on the server Elib.Stanford.EDU in directory /pub/reports/forms.)

  (2) If neither you nor any of the other authors of the report have
      signed a Nonexclusive Right To Publish Blanket Agreement, you
      must send a signed copy of either a Nonexclusive Right To Publish
      Individual Agreement or Blanket Agreement to your department's
      Publications Coordinator. (Copies of these forms can be FTPed from
      the Electronic Library to your system.  You can then print them out,
      sign whatever is necessary and send it to the your department's
      Publications Coordinator.  The procedure for doing this is described
      below.)

      Please be sure to read "Your Intellectual Property Rights As Author",
      at the beginning of each of these forms.  Also, appended to each
      form are two draft attachments: The first may be used if the report
      is also going to be published by some other organization. (eg in
      a Journal.)  The second should be used if the report is a Thesis.

  (3) Submit the Technical Report or Note:
        (a) Paper version (two copies, single sided, for a Technical
            Report; one copy, single sided, for a Technical Note) should
            be sent to your department's Publications Coordinator;
            include insert from funding agency (eg., ARPA) if necessary.
        (b) Electronic version should be FTPed as described below.
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<< Fill out the form below. Use as many lines as necessary for each item. >>

$TITLE:

$AUTHOR(S):

$NUMBER (If known):
<<If you already know what the number of the Report or Note will be, enter it
here, otherwise do not enter anything here.>>

$ABSTRACT:
<<Maximum of 200 words.  ASCII text only.  No TeX, Postscript or wordprocessor
formats please.>>

$IS THIS A THESIS? (Yes or No):

$OTHER TR NUMBERS:
<< If this TR has a number in another series, eg., SLAC, CS, KSL. >>

$IS THIS A TECHNICAL REPORT OR NOTE:
<< Indicate either "report" or "note." Technical Reports are more formal,
   while Notes are less formal and may represent work in progress. >>

$ACCOUNT TO CHARGE:
<< Enter the number of the account that should be charged for printing the
reports.>>

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How to FTP forms from the Electronic Library to your system:

The following forms are available from the Electronic Library:
                File Name                         Form
          -----------------------          ----------------------------
          Draft-Attachments                Drafts of attachments that
                                           may be used when submitting
                                           reports for publication other
                                           than Technical Reports or Notes.
          ???-Request-To-Publish           Request To Publish A Technical
                                           Report or Note. (This form.)
          NRP-Blanket-Agreement            Nonexclusive Right To
                                           Publish Blanket Agreement
          NRP-Single-Agreement             Nonexclusive Right To
                                           Publish Single Agreement
To obtain any of the forms FTP the appropriate file onto your system using
the following procedure:
     While connected to the directory in which you want the form to be, type
     the following commands from your system:
         ftp elib.stanford.edu
         anonymous                         (Type this in response
                                            to the Name prompt.)
         your internet mail address        (eg. Hector@CS.Stanford.EDU
                                            Type this in response
                                            to the Password prompt.)
         cd pub/reports/forms
         get file                          (File is one of the files
                                            listed above.)
         quit
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How to FTP a copy of your report to the Electronic Library:

To copy your report to the Electronic Library do the following:
     (1) We would like to have electronic versions of your report,
         in one or more of the following formats:
             (a) postscript
             (b) tex or latex
             (c) dvi
             (d) troff
             (e) wordprocessor (eg. MSW, Wordperfect, Pagemaker, ...)
         For each of the formats you wish to submit, do the following steps.
     (2) Prepare a single file containing the full report. If the report is in
         Tex, Latex, or troff, include at the beginning comments describing
         any special files needed (eg., macros) or preprocessors (eg., eqn).
         Name the file NNN.DDD.TTT.ZZZ where
              NNN is your last name
              DDD is today's date
              TTT is the current time (use only if you are submitting several
                  reports the same day)
              ZZZ is the "standard" extension (eg. ".tex", ".dvi", ...)
         (Example of a file name: smith.jun-2-93.ps.)
     (3) While connected to the directory containing the above file, Type
         the following commands from your system:
              ftp elib.stanford.edu
              anonymous                         (Type this in response
                                                 to the Name prompt.)
              your internet mail address        (eg. Hector@CS.Stanford.EDU
                                                 Type this in response
                                                 to the Password prompt.)
              binary
              cd incoming
              put NNN.DDD.TTT.ZZZ
              quit
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