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- You missed a citation of my paper!Answer
- Where can I find general information on SLAC?Answer
- Can you please send me a copy of a preprint in the database?Answer
- My preprint is now published, can you update your entry for it?Answer
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- Can the database be used to produce LaTeX-style entries?Answer
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- A revised version of a paper has now been placed
at arXiv.org. How come
the references in its SPIRES entry have not been revised?Answer
- I only want to find papers published in journals, how do I do it?Answer
- How can I narrow my search to theory/phenomenology/experimenal papers?Answer
- Your server is down, my searches time out.Answer
- My thesis is available on the web, can you put a link to it?Answer
- Your "date" field is the year the preprint first appeared, but I want to search by the year it
was published.Answer
- My name is John Q. Physicist, how do I cut out James Physicist when people search for me?
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- How do I search for papers in the JHEP?Answer
- You don't have any references for one paper, can they be added?Answer
- How do I search for a particular journal?Answer
- Why do older papers sometimes appear near the top when I do a search?Answer
- I want to search a database like yours, but for a different research field.Answer
- When I search for my paper and use the date qualifier I can't find it. Answer
- I'd like to host a SPIRES mirror site.
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- What is the best way to link to the SPIRES database?
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Q. Where can I find general information on SLAC?
A. At the virtual visitor center.
There is also additional
information here.
Q. Can you please send me a copy of a preprint in the database?
Q. Why do older papers sometimes appear near the top when
I do a search?
Q. Can I search specifically for introductory, review
or lecture articles?
Q. A revised version of a paper has
now been placed at arXiv.org. How come the references in its SPIRES entry
have not been revised?
Q. I only want to find papers published in journals, how do I do it?
Q. How can I narrow my search to theory/phenomenology/experimenal papers?
Q. Your server is down, my searches time out.
Q. My thesis is available on the web, can you put a link to it?
Q. Your "date" field is the year the preprint first appeared, but I want to search by the year it
was published.
Q. How do I search for papers in the JHEP?
Q. You don't have any references for one paper, can they be added?
Q. How do I search for a particular journal?
Q. When I search for my paper and use the date qualifier I can't find it.
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A. Unfortunately we only have the resources to do this if you
are after a SLAC preprint. Otherwise you should write to the
authors.
A. SPIRES assigns papers a number (the "key") when they are entered
into the database. A standard search returns results sorted by the
keys - which reflects how recently papers are added into the
data base. You can also select the "sort by" to sort the papers by
date, if you wish for a more chronological search result.
A.Yes, using the "keyword" (k) search element, for example
A. The references are added when a paper is first placed on the
archive. This requires some human input, and thus is time consuming,
so we usually
do not revise the references (and we don't usually know when a
paper has been revised).
However, citations are important, so if your paper is cited in a
revised version of arch-ive/yymmnnn, just send E-mail to
library@slac.stanford.edu
saying "My paper, X, is cited in arch-ive/yymmnnn between
hep-th/9711200 and Phys.Lett.B336,1(1994)." If you really want to
be helpful, use the LaTeX formats to find the "CITATION =" entry for
your paper, X (we can then just cut and paste). When authors
use these LaTeX formats to create their reference lists, we
automatically see when they submit a revised version to arXiv.org
(so encourage all your friends to do this).
A. Using the ps qualifier. You can also use this to weed papers,
by type.
A. Once again, with the ps qualifier.
Theory papers are PS=T, phenomenology papers are PS=E,T,
experimental papers are PS=E and instrument papaers are PS=I.
A. Unfortunately this happens from time to time. Usually it doesn't
last too long, but you can always just go to one of our mirrors.
A. Yes, please E-mail us
and tell us the link. However, it is much better if you just submit your thesis to
the appropriate E-print archive.
A. Use the "jy" (journal year) search term, e.g.
fin a maldacena and jy 1998.
A. The Journal of High Energy Physics, uses an ambiguous volume and page number scheme
(because the volumes go back to 1 every year). So we've changed all the volume numbers in the following
way: to find JHEP 01 (1999) 004, perform the search
find j jhep,9901,004.
A. Yes, and we'd like to ask for your help. Please see number 4
here.
A. If you know the five letter CODEN the easiest way is with the search
fin j CODEN or fin j CODEN,VOLUME or fin j CODEN,VOLUME,PAGE
for example:
fin j AUJPA fin j AUJPA,47
fin j AUJPA,47,45
A.The papers are assigned a date based on (in order of importance)
1. Date on the title page
2. Date of conference
3. Date received/posted to arXiv.org
See also journal year.
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