Faculty can easily submit technical reports to the Department's technical report web area using a tool called techreport.

The techreport tool will:

• 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

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>).

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 (each author must be on a separate line but you can have up to 7 of these lines)
• abstract=text file containing text abstract of paper
• file=the PDF file containing the paper
• id=RESERVED tech report ID (eg. id=EECS-2017-01 - please use this only if tech has reserved a separate ID for you. Otherwise, you will get the next available ID.)

Create an “infofile” for your paper, then issue the techreport command like this:

% techreport info-file

Only faculty can submit tech reports. If you are a grad student that needs to submit a report, please speak to your respective supervisor.

If you have technical questions about submitting technical reports, please contact the technical staff.