Editorial Supervision

Although only unrefereed papers can be submitted, the organizers of the related Dagstuhl Seminar act as editors, i.e., they have to check whether the submission is related to the Seminar or not. The editors can refuse to accept a submitted paper if the content of the paper or its presentation does not reach a certain quality level or does not match with the content presented/discussed during the Seminar. In those cases, the submitted paper remains available at CoRR; however it is not included into the Seminar's DPA volume. The editors are given a deadline by which all DPA preprint papers need to be submitted. When this deadline has passed, the editors approach the Publishing Department at Schloss Dagstuhl to signal that the editorial process has finished. The editors forward the list of accepted preprint papers to Dagstuhl's Publishing department which finally takes care to publish the DPA volume at CoRR officially.

Questions about the editorial supervision can be addressed to publishing(at)dagstuhl.de.

Manuscript Preparation

Submissions must be prepared according to the CoRR formatting guidelines and the general arXiv formatting guidelines. The authors must mention on the first page of the submission the relationship to the Dagstuhl Seminar it belongs to, preferrably by stating the Seminar title along with the Seminar number (a five digit number ''yywwn'', e.g., 10482), the Seminar organizers, and the date of the Seminar. Additionally, authors must mention the Seminar number in the report-no field of the meta data submitted to CoRR. The identifier used for the report-no field has the form DPA-yywwn, e.g. for seminar 10482 it is DPA-10482. This ensures the automatic indexing of a DPA volume based on arXiv server technology.

Approval of Manuscripts

Once the authors have submitted their preprint paper at CoRR, it is mandatory that they inform the Seminar organizers by giving details about the location at CoRR (weblink, arXiv citation ("arXiv:XXXX.YYYYvZ")). The Seminar organizers then have to check whether the paper is related to their Dagstuhl Seminar. In the positive case, the paper will be accepted and included in the DPA volume related to the Seminar. In the negative case, the paper is declined and/or the Seminar organizers ask for a revision.

As part of the editorial duties of the Seminar organizers, they will check the following:

• Content: Is the content of the submitted preprint paper related to their Dagstuhl Seminar? Typically, this requires that there was given a talk at the Seminar about the topics described in the paper and/or there was a working group at the Seminar that worked out the topics described in the paper.
• English: Is the paper written in correct English (spelling, style, grammar)?
• Formatting: Is the paper formatted according to the guidelines (as described above in section 'Manuscript Preparation')?

Post-Acceptance Workflow

When the Seminar organizers finished their editorial duties, they signal to Schloss Dagstuhl that the DPA volume of their Seminar can be finalized and published. The editorial office at Schloss Dagstuhl manages the final publication of the DPA volume at CoRR.

License

Schloss Dagstuhl suggests that authors use a Creative Commons license for their work published at CoRR, e.g., CC-by-nd or CC-by-nc-nd. Using a Creative Commons license assures that the authors retain their copyrights. However, the use of a Creative Commons license might interfere with the publication in various journals or conference proceedings. Hence, the authors are free to select a license of their choice, e.g., the default arXiv license. The license can be selected during the submission process at CoRR.