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Indexed Conference Papers

All authors of papers published in the ARCOM Conferences retain the right to re-publish their work in any format without the need for further permission from ARCOM. This includes depositing the final published pdf version of their paper in a University's Institutional Repository.

However, we ask that authors acknowledge that the original paper was first published by ARCOM as part of the Conference Proceedings and, if possible, to provide a direct link to the full paper as archived on the ARCOM Abstracts database.

Papers presented during an ARCOM Workshop

All authors of papers presented as part of an ARCOM workshop retain the right to re-publish their work in any format without the need for further permission from ARCOM. This includes depositing the final pdf version of their paper in a University's Institutional Repository.

However, we ask that authors acknowledge that the original paper was first presented during a ARCOM Workshop and, if possible, to provide a direct link to the full paper within our archive of past workshop papers and workshop proceedings.

Working Papers presented at Conference

Our copyright policy for working papers is broadly the same as that which applies to indexed papers; however the authors of working papers should be aware that there are some important considerations affecting how they store and distribute their work.

Working papers are not 'published' as part of the formal proceedings. Instead, ARCOM makes each year's working papers available via our annual Working Papers Compendium. As such, our working paper format typically covers those papers the authors feel are not yet ready for publication, or papers where further community feedback is felt to be useful.

The format is often used by authors to develop ideas without risking the work being later being identified by publishers as having been 'previously published'. This ensures that once completed, ideas developed and tested in a working paper can be subsequently be submitted to publishers as an original 'article', and will be accepted as '... not having previously published'.

Because so often authors of working papers cannot afford to have their work identified and later rejected as having been 'previously published', ARCOM working papers are only available to registered MyARCOM users. We do not make them available as single files or include them in our abstract database. This level of access control prevents the papers from being automatically full-text searched or 'indexed' by search engines. The gateway-based protection is why ARCOM working papers will not be found during any subsequent prior publication search and is why we refer to ARCOM papers as being either 'indexed papers' (i.e. can be indexed by search engines) or as 'working papers' (not indexed by search engines).

If authors download the working paper compendia from MyARCOM and place them, or any of the papers within them, in any form of online storage or academic repository, the compendia and the papers they contain will then become automatically be accessible to the full-text searches of the type run by publishers before they accept new submissions.

While having your own paper full text searched by a search engine might appear to suit your agenda, you should be aware that this might mean you are unable to publish any papers you develop from that working paper. Finally, such an action may compromise the work of the other authors who may need their working paper to remain 'unseen' while they further develop their ideas.