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Technical Reports
Faculty can easily submit technical reports to the Department's technical report web area using a tool called techreport.
What Will techreport Do?
The techreport tool will do the following:
- Generate a report number for your paper (e.g. EECS-2015-01)
- Create a title page for your paper including the York logo
- Create a PDF version of your paper with the new title page included
- Create an HTML summary page for your paper providing a link to the PDF version of the paper
- Make your paper immediately available on the tech reports page
What will techreport not Do?
The techreport tool will not allow you to automatically remove posted papers. If you post a paper when you did not intend to do so, you will have to manually remove the entries from the technical reports directory (/eecs/dept/www/www.eecs.yorku.ca/research/techreports/<YEAR>.
How Do I Use techreport?
The techreport tool is called with one argument being an info file. The info file contains lines of the form “data=value”. Value entries include:
- title=the title of your paper (should not exceed 150 characters)
- date=the date of the paper (typically in the form January 1, 1998)
- author=the author of the paper (you can have up to 7 of these lines)
- abstract=text file containing text abstract of paper
- file=the PDF file containing the paper
Create an “infofile” for your paper, then issue the techreport command like this:
% techreport info-file
If you have technical questions about submitting technical reports, please contact the technical staff.