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Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
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How to get a research article published in the ETAI
The following is a step-by-step procedure for how to submit a
research article to the ETAI.
- Make up your mind whether you really think your article
is ready for publication. (In a conventional journal or
conference, you can always send it in to see what happens.
Here, it is published at the beginning of
the process, so you won't be able to retract it; it will stay
with you forever).
- Check whether the article belongs within one of the present
Research Areas of the ETAI. If it doesn't, then we won't be
able to receive it - sorry. We only receive papers in areas where
we are properly organized for communication and review.
- Make an arrangement whereby the article will be available on-line in
a persistent fashion during the period of Review Discussion in ETAI.
There are three ways of doing that; see below.
- When the paper has been made available on-line, send a message to
the appropriate ETAI area editor, specify that you want to
submit the article to his/her ETAI area, and give the article's
URL for reference.
- During the three following months, be prepared to answer to the
questions and comments that may arise during the discussion.
- After three months, decide whether you want to submit the article
for acceptance (following confidential refereeing by peers) by the
ETAI, or if you wish to go for another journal.
- If you choose the ETAI, as we hope, then send another E-mail message
to the area editor to confirm. Also, consider whether you wish to
revise the
article before it is sent to the referees.
- For refereeing, the article must exist in standard ETAI format,
which means e.g. that the font size and the length of lines is what
you expect from a journal article. This is automatic if you have
used an FPA for publication; otherwise ask the advise of the area
editor or the ETAI secretariat.
- Refereeing takes only a few weeks, and normally returns with a binary
decision (accept or not accept). We assume that the feedback and
exchange of opinions takes place during the review debate.
- However, in exceptional circumstances where the review debate was
lame, refereeing may have to proceed like for an ordinary journal.
But even in this case, the "discussion" part of the referees
comments will be posted on the article's interaction page.
- Let us hope that your article is accepted to the ETAI. If it is,
then include it proudly in your CV as a published journal
article.
- When your ETAI accepted article is going to be part of your merits
for promotion or for a research grant, you may wish to refer to
ETAI's home page which now contains information and support arguments
specially directed to promotion committees and sponsoring agencies,
explaining the solidity of ETAI's quality assurance scheme.
(Click here to see what we tell them).
Putting the article on-line
ETAI's public reviewing scheme requires that every submitted article must
be available over the Internet in a secure fashion: it must remain on-line
in a tamper-free way. There are three ways of arranging this:
- First Publication Archives: The article is published (without
review) by an organization that commits to keeping it on-line for
a long period (at least 20 years) and in a secure way.
- First Publication Servers: The article is posted as a
departmental technical report that has a special backup agreement
with a First Publication Archive.
- Posted Copy of Printed Article: The article has already been
published in a conference proceedings; the author puts a copy of it
on-line on his or her home page on the web, and some safety measures
are taken to verify that the on-line version is identical to the one
in the conference proceedings.
The following are the sets of rules for these three means of making the
article available. Please consult your area editor or the ETAI secretariat
for advise about which method to use in each case.
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Rules for First Publication Archives (FPA:s)
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Rules for First Publication Servers (FPS:s)
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Rules for Posted Copies of Printed Articles (PCPA:s)
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