Which conferences are included in LIPIcs?
Is access to the publications in LIPIcs free?
How is the Editorial Board formed - and developing?
How did the Editorial Board work until now?
How is long-term availability guaranteed?
How does one cite papers in LIPIcs-conferences?
Is LIPIcs included in the main scientific indices?
Are there costs that a conference associated with LIPIcs incur?
Is there a package that includes printed proceedings?
Is there a LaTeX style for LIPIcs?
Where can I get additional administrative and technical information?
Which conferences are included in LIPIcs?
CSL - Computer Science Logic (starting in 2011)- FSTTCS - Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (volumes available since 2008)
- ICLP - International Conference on Logic Programming (starting in 2010)
- RTA - Rewriting Techniques and Applications (starting in 2010)
- STACS - Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (volumes available since 2008)
What is the scope of LIPIcs?
LIPIcs is open for all fields of Informatics.
Is access to the publications in LIPIcs free?
As LIPIcs is published on DROPS (Dagstuhl Research Online Publication Server) under an open access license, the retrieval of all documents is free of charge.
How is the Editorial Board formed - and developing?
The initial composition of the Editorial Board (EB) reflects the origin of LIPIcs with two conferences in theoretical computer science. The board will be enlarged as new areas of computer science are represented in the series.
How did the Editorial Board work until now?
The main work was the careful handling of applications, in order to develop LIPIcs into a top quality series. In the first months of LIPIcs (i.e. since May 2009), several applications were rejected, and one was accepted. Another question currently under discussion is a first enlargement of the EB by new members.
How is long-term availability guaranteed?
- All documents published in LIPIcs are assigned a persistent identifier. We assign to each document a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and a Uniform Resource Name (URN) as persistent identifiers.
- All documents published in LIPIcs are collected by the German National Library which is responsible for not only archiving the documents but also for conversion to future formats or future supply of current environments which allow the long-term retrieval of the publications.
- Of course, Dagstuhl pursues a careful archiving policy, too.
- Mirroring of the LIPIcs sites is supported by io-port.net and the SunSite RWTH Aachen.
How does one cite papers in LIPIcs-conferences?
Citation is guaranteed due to the long-term availability, the assignment of persistent identifiers (DOI, URN) and the thorough collection of all necessary meta data.
LIPIcs conference papers are cited as any other conference paper (print or online), with addition of the DOI/URN:
<author>, <title>, in <editors>, Eds., <conference>, Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, Vol. <no.>, <year>, pp. <no> - <no>, <DOI/URN>
To facilitate citation, each publication in LIPIcs is supplemented by a BibTeX-entry (see e.g. Preface in STACS 2009).
Is LIPIcs included in the main scientific indices?
All LIPIcs volumes are indexed at DBLP, see LIPIcs at DBLP.
Furthermore, the volumes are submitted to Thomson Reuter's Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI).
Are there costs that a conference associated with LIPIcs incur?
Dagstuhl will charge a nominal publication fee to cover the costs. However, due to a share of workload between LIPIcs office and the conference's program chair, the publication fee will be kept to a minimum. The cost of the past volumes for STACS and FSTTCS was between 500 and 800 Euro each.
Is there a package that includes printed proceedings?
Usually the most efficient solution is a local printing at the conference institution. Dagstuhl may help finding a German printer, however all negotiations, costs for printing and postal delivery are left to the conference organizers.
Is there a LaTeX style for LIPIcs?
Yes, it is available via the author's instructions.
Where can I get additional administrative and technical information?
More details can be found on the web pages of our online publication server DROPS.
