Are your written words getting to your readers? Registering your manuscripts and submitting them electronically to TechPubs helps you reach more readers and get the credit you deserve.

As Jonathan Dorfan explained in the February 8, 2000 All Hands memo on author responsibilities (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/techpubs/help/2000authresp.html), authors must register their documents for a document number and submit them to TechPubs for processing. In this way SLAC can meet its contractual obligation to DOE.

What you may not know is that by registering your manuscript you get many additional benefits. Every paper processed by TechPubs is:

• Reviewed by the Technology Transfer Office for a possible patent

• Archived in a permanent location on the SLAC Document Server, making it accessible on the Web

• Linked, along with its bibliographic record, to the HEP-SPIRES database. Readers can find your paper there by searching any number of ways

Readers will also be able to use the cut-and-paste citation feature to cite your paper correctly—giving you the credit you deserve. And speaking of citations, did you know that SPIRES automatically tracks the number of times someone cites your paper? What a deal!

By registering your documents, we will also receive full credit for work developed using SLAC resources. When we find papers that are not processed through TechPubs, we have to spend time backtracking through the system to account for the publication. At that point we might not be able to count the publication as SLAC work, due to copyright regulations.

The best news: You can submit your documents right from your desktop. The process is simple:

• Use idoc to register your paper for a document number (http://idoc.slac.stanford.edu/)

• Put the document number and DOE contract number (DOE-AC03-76SF00515) on your title page

• Upload a PostScript of PDF version of your paper to the TechPubs inbox (http://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/groups/techpubs/inbox/) either by dragging and dropping your file(s) onto the browser window. If using UNIX, copy the file to our directory (/afs/slac/public/groups/techpubs/inbox).

Processing typically takes about two days, and you will receive email notifications at each step.

To learn more about the services we offer contact Crystal Tilghman, ext. 2677, or Sharon West, ext. 2594.