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Frequently Asked Questions

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
The database is missing a paper of mine, can it be added?: Answer
Can the database be used to produce LaTeX-style entries?: Answer
Can I do a search just for papers with lots of citations?: Answer
How do I narrow an author search so that I find all an author's papers, but nobody else's?: Answer
Can I search specifically for introductory, review or lecture articles?: Answer
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?: Answer
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
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.: Answer
What is the best way to link to the SPIRES database?: Answer
Why are my number of citations decreasing?: Answer
I heard there is an H-Index metric, where do I find it?: Answer

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Where can I find general information on SLAC?

At the virtual visitor center. There is also additional information here.

Can you please send me a copy of a preprint in the database?

Unfortunately we only have the resources to do this if you are after a SLAC preprint. Otherwise you should write to the authors.

Why do older papers sometimes appear near the top when I do a search?

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.

Can I search specifically for introductory, review or lecture articles?

Yes, using the "keyword" (k) search element, for example

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?

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).

I only want to find papers published in journals, how do I do it?

Using the ps qualifier. You can also use this to weed papers, by type.

fin title duality and strong and ps published

How can I narrow my search to theory/phenomenology/experimenal papers?

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.

fin title strong coupling and ps T not ps E finds theory papers only
fin title strong coupling and ps E,T finds phenomenology papers only
fin title strong coupling and ps E not ps T finds experimental papers only
fin t tau and ps I finds instrument papers only

Your server is down, my searches time out.

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.

My thesis is available on the web, can you put a link to it?

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.

Your "date" field is the year the preprint first appeared, but I want to search by the year it was published.

Use the "jy" (journal year) search term, e.g. fin a maldacena and jy 1998.

How do I search for papers in the JHEP?

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.

You don't have any references for one paper, can they be added?

Yes, and we'd like to ask for your help. Please see number 4 here.

How do I search for a particular journal?

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

When I search for my paper and use the date qualifier I can't find it.

The papers are assigned a date based on (in order of importance)

Date on the title page
Date of conference
Date received/posted to arXiv.org

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