As Lab Director Jonathan Dorfan recently said, "A research institution’s publication record provides an important measure of its success" (TIP, September 5, 2003). Register and submit your documents to the Technical Publications department (TechPubs), and help us give your paper—and the Lab—the attention it deserves.

Once you register and submit your document to TechPubs, they automatically send it through the Tech Transfer office, post it to the Web and include it in the SPIRES literature database. This also helps fulfill a requirement from the Director (All Hands Memo, February 8, 2000) and our mandate from DOE to collect, track and organize all written results of work done at SLAC.

Is it a SLAC Document?

Broadly defined, a SLAC document is a written work authored by a SLAC employee, user, subcontractor or visitor that is produced by using SLAC resources. The resource can be as earth-shaking as a new experimental result or technical breakthrough discovered at SLAC or as mundane as your office space or computer.

TechPubs offers a variety of document numbers to organize SLAC publications. For example, PUB numbers are used for papers that you can publish as journal articles, conference publications or lectures; R numbers are for technical reports, theses or conference proceedings; TN numbers are for technical notes or papers not being submitted to a journal or conference. To determine which type of number is right for your document, go to the idoc online registration system Web site at http://idoc.slac.stanford.edu/doctypes.htm or ask someone in the TechPubs department (http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/techpubs).

Since we publish these documents to the Web, your papers quickly become available to colleagues within SLAC and around the world. On-line publishing has also helped us report SLAC’s work annually, to the DOE and to win a DOE certificate of achievement "for successfully completing the transition from paper to electronic technical information reporting 3 years ahead of the DOE goal" (DOE Certificate of Achievement, March 15, 2002).

Fulfilling your author responsibilities is easy. Log on to idoc at http://idoc.slac.stanford.edu to obtain a document number and then follow the posted submission instructions to either FTP or e-mail an electronic version of your paper to us—we’ll do the rest. Log on to idoc during our first annual Pub Week (November 17-21) to enter a drawing for your choice of prizes – no paper entry is necessary to win.