announcing a Computing Research Repository

Joseph Halpern (halpern@cs.cornell.edu)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 13:48:47 -0400 (EDT)

As the announcement below makes clear, there's a new repository that I
hope will become *the* place for all papers related to computer science,
just as the LANL repositoryu is *the* place for papers in physics.
Right now, AI is a subject area, but there is no special UAI subject
area. If there is sufficient interest (i.e., enough submissions) from
the UAI community, a UAI subject area can be created. I hope you'll all
submit your papers to CoRR. Let me know if you have any questions (that
aren't already answered on the web sites mentioned below). -- Joe

Annoucing A Computing Research Repository

Researchers have made their papers available by putting them on personal
web pages, departmental pages, and on various ad hoc sites known only
to cognoscenti. Until now, there has not been a single repository to
which researchers from the whole field of computing can submit reports.

This is about to change. Through a partnership of ACM, the Los Alamos
e-Print archive, and NCSTRL (Networked Computer Science Technical
Reference Library), an online Computing Research Repository (CoRR) is
being established. The Repository has been integrated into the
collection of over 20,000 computer science research reports and other
material available through NCSTRL (http://www.ncstrl.org) and will be
linked with the ACM Digital Library. Most importantly, the Repository
will be available to all members of the community at no charge.

We encourage you to start using the Repository right away. For more details,
see http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs/intro.html. That site provides
information on how to submit documents, browse, search, and subscribe to
get notification of new articles of interest. Please spread the word
among your colleagues and students. CoRR will only gain in value as
more researchers use it.

See http://www.acm.org/repository for a more detailed description of CoRR.