This document is addressed to organizers of scientific workshops/conferences who are interested in distributing their proceedings via the Internet. CEUR-WS.org focusses on the disciplines of computer science, information systems, and information technology. Please read this document carefully to avoid unnecessary delays.
Proceedings published on CEUR-WS.org are freely accessible on the SunSITE.
Hence, there are no technical provisions (access authorization) to prevent
un-authorized use of the proceedings contents.
Being freely accessible does not mean 'public domain', however. All material
remains copyrighted.
CEUR-WS.org is a publication channel for workshops and conferences from the computer science and information systems domain. We may publish proceedings from neighbor disciplines if they have a significant overlap with computer science and/or information systems. The workshop/conference should have a clear focus on specific scientific topics.
We are quite strict on the preconditions and want to avoid unnecessary rejections.
Since we check the constraints after the submission, you should be careful with promises
to your authors that the proceedings will be published with CEUR-WS.org.
However, if you follow the guilines of this document, you can be rather
sure that your request shall be accepted. You may include a phrase like "Proceedings shall
be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication" in the Call for Papers of your
workshop/conference and on your website. Please do not use the CEUR-WS logo
on your website.
Papers written in a language different than English
The majority (50% or more) of the paper in a volume must be in English. English is the de facto standard when you want to target an international audience. In general, the submitted papers have to be written in the Latin alphabet. If you want to publish a proceedings in a non-Latin alphabet, you should first contact us to see whether we can find an acceptable presentation. See also our guidelines on non-Latin titles.
If you submit papers written in a language different to English, we must be able to verify the scientific character of the papers. Therefore, for papers written in a language different than English, we require that you provide an English translation of the paper titles in the index file and additional English abstracts in the papers (see Vol-1877 as example). This is not just to be able to verify the scientific character of a paper, but also to make the content of these papers accessible to the international scientific community. An English abstract and title allows any scientist to decide whether the contribution of a paper is relevant to his or her research. If interested, he or she then may contact the authors for more information.
The standard phrase defining the rights for readers of individual papers displayed in the index file of
a proceedings volume is
"Copyright © XXXX for the individual papers by the
papers' authors. Copying permitted for private and
academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted
by its editors."
where XXXX is the year in which the papers were produced - typically the same year in which the
workshop/conference took place. The copyright phrase tells readers
of your proceedings volumes the conditions under which they can
download individual papers (resp. material contained in your volume).
Make sure that the rights you obtained from the paper
authors are compatible with this phrase!
Specifically, the PDFs of the papers in your proceedings may not
include a phrase that transfers the author copyright to another
organization such as ACM/IEEE, who typically acquire exclusive copyright transfers.
Also avoid copyright clauses that have a meaning that differs from the above phrase.
The default rule for the copyright (i.e. when the papers have no copyright footnote) is
that the authors hold the copyright. In case of violation, they can use the copyright law
to defend their rights. Hence, leaving out the copyright clause does not restrict authors'
rights. The contrary is true.
If you nevertheless prefer to have a copyright footnote included in the PDFs, then let your authors use
a simple text like:
"Copyright © XXXX for this paper by its authors. Copying permitted for private and academic purposes."or even simpler
"Copyright held by the author(s)."Since we plan to transition to a Creative Commons license model, you may also use a clause like
"Copyright held by the author(s). Use permitted under the CC-BY license CreativeCommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"All papers in a submission shall have the same copyright clause. Be aware that CEUR-WS.org has no obligation to track copyrights violators. We, i.e. the management team of CEUR-WS.org and the editorial board of Sun SITE Central Europe, take no responsibility for any damage caused by the publication of your proceedings volume. See disclaimer for more details. You are the publisher of your own proceedings volume, CEUR-WS.org is a service that provides an online proceedings store for you.
Formally, the management team of CEUR-WS.org and the editorial board of Sun SITE Central Europe is not obliged to provide any submitted material on the server or to guarantee a certain quality of service. In practice however, we are willing to provide this service for a virtually unlimited time. The published material must be scientific or serve academic purposes. It may not contain indecent parts or parts violating human rights. Advertisements (including logos of sponsor companies) must be avoided. Better put them on the home page of your workshop/conference and/or give them credits in the foreword/preface of the the proceedings (if applicable).
Before the PUT step, you prepare a submission directory
containing all
material to be published. This directory must contain at least
a file named "index.html" which serves as the entry point to
your material.
The entry point "index.html" to your material
must conform to the master layout Vol-XXX/index.html
(Vol-AIXIA/index.html for the AI*IA Series).
In particular, you are supposed to use the "CEUR" class tags as advised
in the master layout. Do not
open Vol-XXX/index.html and then say
"File→Save As" in your browser, as this may mutilate the file, but instead right-click
on a link to Vol-XXX/index.html and say
"Save As". You may also use a download tool such as wget or curl
(e.g. execute the command line wget http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html).
You may want to require your authors to use a uniform style for the papers. See Vol-XXX/samplestyles for some examples. We encourage to use one of these styles because they will include in each paper a reference back to the proceedings volume where they appeared.
If you collected the papers via EasyChair and/or would like to embed RDFa annotations for semantic search engines into index.html with little effort, you can use the GPL-licensed script collection ceur-make. The scripts, tested under Linux so far, automate generation of the index.html file, the copyright form for authors, and a BibTeX database for your volume. We strongly discourage manual RDFa editing without using ceur-make, e.g. by copying from an old volume, as it is error-prone. If you really know what you are doing, see our recommendations for validating RDFa below.
We impose certain preconditions, in particular on the minimum size of a proceedings volume. Make sure your submissions fulfills the preconditions. We kindly ask you to include in your submission file a document that lists the members of the program committee, and specifies how many papers were submitted/accepted. You can include this information in a preface document, as usually done for printed proceedings.
View the index file as plain Unicode text rather than as HTML code.
Your file index.html must at least contain the title of the material and the names/addresses of
the editors (normally identical to the publishers).
It must use the style sheet http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-ws.css
which defines some common layout for proceedings volumes.
It may not contain or start executable code such as Java, JavaScript, ActiveX or
any other type of executable code. Neither may it contain cookie definitions
nor invisible pixels and the like.
We also recommend that you check any links in your file. For example, if you have temporarily uploaded your file to your own homepage (from which it should be removed once published with us!), you can feed its URL into the W3C link validator.
Do not use a Web page editor to produce index.html but rather a simple text editor like 'vi' or 'notepad'. Web page editors including Microsoft Word tend to produce unreadable HTML code which we want to avoid in CEUR-WS.org. CSS must be preferred over FONT tag. As of 2015, we accept characters beyond the 7-bit US-ASCII character set; however, the index.html file must be encoded as UTF-8 Unicode. Also, non-Latin titles need to be accompanied with a Latin transliteration as explained below; non-Latin names must be transliterated.
Please be careful in the preparation of the file index.html. Delays in publishing a volume are mostly due to errors in that file. The management of CEUR-WS.org reserves the right for adapting the file index.html to accommodate the common style of CEUR-WS.org and to include volume numbers and similar meta information.
You may want to use filenames like "paper1.pdf" for regular papers and "short1.pdf" for short papers. This is not a hard rule, however. Further material like bibliography file, author index, etc. can be included and linked in the index file but is never a paper. We no longer allow including a PDF of the "whole proceedings" since this can easily lead to inconsistencies and blows up the storage space. If you really want to distribute such a redundant PDF, then do so via your workshop/conference home page. You may include a link to that PDF in the index file.
The papers must be original, i.e. not published in an earlier workshop or conference or journal!
The papers in the proceedings should be in Portable Document Format (PDF). Prefer neutral filenames like paper1.pdf over content-carrying filenames like SmithAndWagon.pdf. Strictly use ISO-compliant filenames and directory names! For example, ISO does not allow blanks in a filename like in "paper 1.pdf". Each paper shall correspond to single file in the volume.
HREF="paper1.pdf"rather than absolute
HREF="http://www.dept.org/paper1.pdf".
Paper files and other items must be put in the main directory rather than sub-directories of the submission directory. This allows short URLs to the citable items of a published proceedings volume. An exception to this general rule are back links to workshop/conference home pages and home pages of scientific institutions (or research labs) organizing the workshop/conference. Moreover, back links to editor and author home pages are welcome. Please note however that such absolute links can and will become dangling when people change their affiliation! That's also a reason why putting the proceedings online at CEUR-WS.org is probably a better idea than putting it on your home page.
We advise proceedings editors to include a link to their workshop/conference web page in their index file of their CEUR-WS volume. This allows readers to easily locate further information about the workshop/conference such as the call for papers. We also recommend to include a back link from the workshop/conference page to the CEUR-WS volume.
Most volumes in CEUR-WS.org have no data about page numbers. So, providing them is an extra service. We have no specific knowledge about suitable tools to change page numbers or merge multiple pdf files into a single one. You might want to try Pdftk, Adobe Acrobat or CutePdf.
If you want to merge several pdf files into one and create a table of contents for the merged document, you may want to use the LaTeX macro definitions by Daniel A. Sadilek, originally used for producing the aggregated proccedings file Vol-324/dsml08.pdf. Sample LaTeX styles with and without page numbers are provided at Vol-XXX/samplestyles.
index.html is required to be encoded as UTF-8 Unicode, which, in principle, enables you to use non-Latin scripts.
However, in the case that you have non-Latin paper titles, we require that you additionally provide a Latin transliteration.
Inside the machine-readable metadata (i.e. the CEURTITLE and AUXTITLE fields), there must be a Latin transliteration.
It is strongly recommended to keep the non-Latin original text outside of these machine-readable tags.
For compatibility with publication databases, non-Latin author names must be transliterated into Latin. If an author already has an entry in a widely known publication database such as DBLP, it is strongly preferred to use the same transliteration that is also used there. If you think you are transliterating an author's name for the first time, it is strongly preferred to use a transliteration that is aligned with the English pronunciation, e.g. the BGN/PCGN romanization for Russian.
zip -r sub_file.zip dir_namewhere "sub_file.zip" is the name of the submission file and "dir_name" is the name of the submission directory. For example, the command
zip -r ABCD12.zip ABCD12creates a submission file for the material contained in the directory ABCD12. Use meaningful names for the submission file, e.g. the acronym of the workshop/conference. Under Windows, you can use packers like WinZIP, PKZIP or similar to produce the submission file. But beware: use ISO-standard file names! In particular, blank characters in file names are not allowed. Under Unix, you may also use the 'tar/gzip' commands to create the submission directory. Make sure that the submission file expands to a directory and not to files in the current directory. Subsequently, the procedures PUT (submit a proceedings volume to be published on CEUR-WS.org) and DELETE (remove a published volume) are explained. These two procedures shall be executed by one of the proceedings editors., i.e. by you. You should in particular sign the corresponding form, and you should be the person mentioned in the clause "submitted by ..." at the end of the index file of the volume. If you are one of the editors but the technical upload is done by a person who is not one of the editors, then you should use the clause "submitted by your name, other name" in the index file.
The PUT-FORM indicates to us that you are aware of copyright issues. If the material is accepted by us you will receive a notification with the bibliographic reference of the material. Please be reachable via email the days following the upload of the submission file. We might have some questions or we may have to ask you to correct certain issues.
Still, some proceedings editors would like to get a CEUR-WS volume number assigned to their workshop/conference in advance to the publication at CEUR-WS, for example to to include the URL of the proceedings volume in the frontmatter of the proceedings. To do so, just contact the manager of this site via email (see end of this page) and specify a deadline within 4 weeks after the request until when the proceedings volume will be uploaded. It is not a requirement to ask in advance for a volume number. Neither do we recommend to ask for a volume number in advance. If you have received an advance volume number, we expect that the submission will arrive before the promised deadline, and that you very strictly follow the instructions for submission. Note that the assignment of a volume number is not a guarantee that your volume gets published at CEUR-WS.org. Your submission must still fulfill the preconditions.
The actual date of execution of PUT/DELETE is subject to local policy of the management of CEUR-WS.org and SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE. Once deleted, a volume cannot be re-published at CEUR-WS.org.
The deadlines are very tight. Hence, you must check the correctness of the files before submitting them to us! Include the authors in the correctness check by letting them confirm that the right version of their paper is included. You cannot change them after submission!
Individual published papers cannot be removed from a volume. Only the editor can remove the whole volume (procedure DELETE above). To submit the corrected version, please proceed as follows:
corrected title of paper 3 corrected name of author of paper 7 corrected link pointing to the affiliation of the first editor
<li id="paper01"><a href="paper01.pdf">
<a href="ftp://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE/pub/publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-XXX-v1.zip">Complete proceedings in one ZIP file</a>
We assume that you, the proceedings editors, are fully aware of the copyright requirements as discussed further above in this document and have acquired the copyright from the authors of the papers/material published in your volume.
Under rare circumstances, it can happen that already published papers later turn out to be plagiated. We have a procedure to handle this and ask you to follow the corresponding rules in case that you become aware of such a case.
The papers and volumes published on CEUR-WS.org are freely accessible for academic and private use. Only such use is permitted!
Since authors retain their copyright, they are legally allowed to re-publish their paper with a second publisher. While this appears lawful, it could be regarded as self-plagiarism. We strongly discourage such re-publication of papers that are already published with us. Making a copy of the paper available on the author's home page or on the institutional repository is not regarded as a re-publication. In such cases, authors should include a reference/URL to the original publication.
When proceedings editors decide to re-publish their CEUR-WS.org volume elsewhere, they should make sure that the re-published version is clearly distinguishible from the CEUR-WS.org version. In particular, it may not use any of the following attributes characteristic to CEUR-WS.org:
Some proceedings editors want to distribute their proceedings via additional publication channels (e.g. printed copies or stored on electronic media or published on the workshop/conference web site) in parallel to the online version at CEUR-WS.org. This is fine with us as long as you (the proceedings editors) clearly distinguish it from the CEUR-WS version like indicated above for the case of re-publications. The re-published volume must then include a phrase like
Originally published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073)or similar on one of the introductory pages of proceedings volume published via the other channel. Such duplicate channels are sometimes convenient but be aware that it is potentially detrimental to the authenticity of your volume. The readers may get confused about where the volume was originally published.
Commercial and non-commercial publishers interested in re-publishing complete proceedings volumes or individual papers are advised to negotiate terms with the editors of the respective volume and/or the authors of the respective papers. CEUR-WS.org is not holding the copyright to the volumes or the individual papers. Hence, we are not a party in such negotiations. The only constraint from our side is that the re-publication is clearly distinguishable from the version published at CEUR-WS.org (see above). Since the CEUR-WS version of the paper is usually the original one, the re-published copy shall include a back reference to the original publication like
Originally published in A. Smith, B. Miller (eds.): Proceedings "Title", CEUR-WS.org/Vol-XXX
CEUR-WS.org is not a re-publisher of already published proceedings or papers. If your proceedings have already been published elsewhere, then do not submit those proceedings to CEUR-WS.org. This rule applies when the proceedings were published with another recognized academic publisher, typically holding an ISSN or ISBN number.
We forbid third-party mirroring of the CEUR-WS.org web site or its parts. Mirroring is different from re-publication since it publishes a one-to-one copy via another Web site. An unauthorized mirror would likely violate the copyright of the CEUR-WS.org Team to its own contents and negatively affect the authenticity of CEUR-WS.org.
Like mirroring, we also disallow to integrate CEUR-WS.org or its parts as an inner frame inside another web site. While this is technically not an act of copying, it can give the impression as if the content of CEUR-WS.org were part of the other web site.
Authors of individual papers keep the copyright to their papers. Authors pass publication rights to the respective editors of the CEUR-WS.org volume. This is a non-exclusive right to publish the author's paper. By doing so, authors can of course no longer publish their papers with another publisher who demands the transfer of the exclusive copyright! This would violate the earlier transfer of non-exclusive copyrights to the proceedings editors.
Authors keep the right to publish a copy of the published original of their paper on their home page or via the institutional repository of their organization or via comparable repositories. The paper may also be publicly available via such sites. We kindly ask authors to specify in such cases the bibliographic details of the original publication of the paper at CEUR-WS.org. See below for example on how to reference the paper's bibliographic details.
Likewise, the author has the right to publish a pre-print or post-print of his CEUR-WS.org paper on his homepage, an institutional repository, or elsewhere. We do however not recommend to publish pre-prints when the official version is already online at CEUR-WS.org because it diminishes the authenticity of the paper.
The editors confirm to us in the signed PUT-FORM that the authors continue to hold the copyright to their papers.
CEUR-WS.org acquires no rights to the papers in a proceedings volume, or to the volume as a whole. The editors of the volume hold the right to publish the complete volume. The editors execute this right by publishing the volume on CEUR-WS.org. They are the self-publishers of their volumes. Authors do not have the right to demand the removal or update of their paper published at CEUR-WS.org. Any communication of authors about their papers must instead be directed to the editors of their proceedings volume.
M. Lenzerini: Description logics for schema level reasoning in databases. Proc. of 1st Workshop KRDB'94, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 20-22, 1994, CEUR-WS.org, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1/lenzerini.pdf.Use CEUR-WS.org as 'publisher' for the paper even though the respective volume is legally published by its editors. A shorter form for citing a paper can be:
M. Lenzerini: Description logics for schema level reasoning in databases. Proc. of 1st Workshop KRDB'94, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 20-22, 1994, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-1/lenzerini.pdf.A whole proceedings volume can be referenced by its ONLINE URL as follows:
Enrico Franconi, Michael Kifer (eds.): Knowledge Representation meets Databases 1999. Proc. 6th Intl. Workshop KRDB'99, Linköping, Sweden, July 29-30, 1999, CEUR-WS.org, online CEUR-WS.org/Vol-21.We also assign a persistent identifier (URN) to proceedings volumes published at CEUR-WS.org. You can use the URN instead of the ONLINE URL like shown in this example:
Massimo Melucci, Stefano Mizzaro, Gabriella Pasi (eds.): Italian Information Retrieval Workshop 2010. Proceedings of the First Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR-2010), Padua, Italy, January 27-28, 2010, CEUR-WS.org/Vol-560, urn:nbn:de:0074-560-7.
We will continue to assign ONLINE URLs to new volumes. The URN is an additional identification scheme. The URN of a published volume can be mapped to its online location via a URN resolver. For example, https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0074-560-7 is resolved to CEUR-WS.org/Vol-560. The physical URL http://SunSITE.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/ should not be used for references! The URN is provided by Deutsche Nationalbiblothek. Individual papers do not (yet) have a URN.
Note that the ISSN number 1613-0073 identifies CEUR-WS.org as a publication series, not an individual volume within CEUR-WS.org! We recommend not to include the ISSN number in a citation of a paper that appeared in CEUR-WS.org. If you do prefer to include it, then insert the ISSN number after the label "CEUR Workshop Proceedings" or after the acronym CEUR-WS.org, not after the label of your workshop/conference or attached to your volume number. We do not issue ISBN numbers for volumes! Neither do we issue DOIs for individual papers or for volumes.
Here is how to cite a paper and a proceedings volume with BibTeX (assuming the BibLaTeX extension). We recommend to always create a separate @proceedings entry for the volume, as it will facilitate citing two or more papers from that volume. Note that some volumes come with a ready-to-use BibTeX file.
@inproceedings{LM:Greycite2013,
title = {Twenty-Five Shades of {Greycite}: Semantics for Referencing and Preservation},
author = {Phillip Lord and Lindsay Marshall},
pages = {10--21},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-994/paper-01.pdf},
crossref = {SePublica2013},
}
@proceedings{SePublica2013,
booktitle = {3\textsuperscript{rd} Workshop on Semantic Publishing (SePublica)},
year = 2013,
editor = {Garc{\'i}a Castro, Alexander and Christoph Lange and Phillip Lord and Robert Stevens},
number = 994,
series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
address = {Aachen},
issn = {1613-0073},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-994},
venue = {Montpellier, France},
eventdate = {2013-05-26},
title = {Proceedings of the 3\textsuperscript{rd} Workshop on Semantic Publishing, {Extended} {Semantic} {Web} {Conference}}
}
DBLP indexes many CEUR-WS.org proceedings volumes. We do not have a formal relation with DBLP but cooperate with them to make it as easy as possible for them to index our proceedings volumes. However, there is no guarantee that your proceedings volume will be indexed automatically. You (as proceedings editor) are advised to contact DBLP yourself to check whether your volume shall be considered by DBLP for indexing. Other popular search engines and publication databases, e.g. Scopus, GoogleScholar etc. also crawl CEUR-WS.org or DBLP on a regular basis. We have no formal relation with any of them. If they have a wrong or missing entry on your publication, then you need to communicate with them, not with us! We have no communication channels to these indexers.
You can ask for a volume number in advance. However, we only register a URN for a volume once it has been published. Nevertheless, you can compute the URN of your volume in advance using the check digit calculation service of the German National Library. In this form, please enter urn:nbn:de:0074-XXXX-, where XXXX is your reserved volume number.
You hold the copyright to your paper. So, you are free to do so. You don't even have to ask us or the editor of your volume. Likewise, you can put a copy of your paper on your personal website. You can use the version of the paper published at CEUR-WS.org.
The second question is different. Putting a paper on an institutional repository is not a re-publication. It just is a copy of the same paper with the same bibliographic meta data. As a copyright holder, you could legally re-publish your paper also with another channel, e.g. by submitting it to another conference or a journal. This may legally be permitted, but it could establish a case of self-plagiarism. It is quite usual to extend a workshop or conference paper considerably and then submit it to a journal or a major conference. Some research communities, in particular from computer science, regard this as ethically acceptable as long as the extended version significantly exceeds the original paper and a reference to the original paper is given. We have no role in judging particular cases.
You need permission from the authors, not from us. We do not see a reason to re-publish a paper that is anyway freely available at CEUR-WS.org.
Yes, just follow instructions at http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html.
If your submission (ZIP file and PUT-FORM) meets our requirements, it takes only a couple of days in most cases. In 2014 and 2015 there were only 7 out of more than 400 volumes whose publication took longer than one week; in most cases this was due to the initial submission not meeting the requirements. In recent years, the number of submissions has increased significantly, leading to somewhat longer cycle times for publishing a submission. Hence, give us at least one week time before reminding us of your submission.
CEUR-WS.org is committed to publishing proceedings with a long term sustainability, both from a legal and from a technical perspective, and in a way that works easily for a wide audience. At the time of this writing (2016), trustable digital signatures based on cryptography would require considerable technical experience and infrastructure both on the side of the volume editors and on our side. So far, a scan or photograph of a hand-written signature on printed paper is the only signature that meets all these requirements. All kinds of digital imagery that does not involve cryptography, such as hand signatures produced with a digital pen, are too easy to forge, and thus not acceptable.
Having a sub-series is a relatively new feature -- currently there is only one sub-series: AI*IA Series. If you are interested in having your own sub-series, you first need to make sure that you fulfill the following requirements:
No.
No. The logo is reserved for use at CEUR-WS.org. When advertising your workshop, you may use a phrase like "Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication" in your Call for Papers.
No. We do not maintain such counters.