Publishing working papers on the LUMS website
Background information
The LUMS working paper system - viewable through the LUMS website - allows LUMS faculty to produce working papers in Word or another application (such as Adobe Acrobat) and submit to the School for publishing as a LUMS working paper. The School handles all the data entry and PDF conversion on behalf of faculty.
- Any member of staff may publish a working paper on the site (provided their departmental research representative has approved it).
- Though published by LUMS, papers are included in a series. These can be a departmental series – such as Economics Working Paper Series – or they could be a research unit series.
- Unique reference numbers - one for the main LUMS sequence, and one for the departmental or other series - are generated for each paper automatically through the publications database.
- The Research Office converts all files supplied to PDF.
- A standard LUMS frontispiece is automatically generated by the publications database and inserted at the front of the PDF file for each paper. The frontispiece includes the title of the paper, the date (year only), author names, publishing unit (e.g., the department) and a standard copyright note.
- Security settings for PDF files are set to Adobe Standard Security. Detailed security settings are set to No Changing the Document. Printing and Content Copying will be allowed.
- The Research Office does not undertake any proof reading or corrections of the working paper itself. These are the responsibility of the authors.
- Once published through LUMS, the entry for the paper should remain listed in the publications database. If the paper is subsequently published by a journal or in a book, the PDF file should be removed from the web display. A reference to the published paper can be inserted in its place (this feature is not yet implemented). It is the author's responsibility to ask the Research Office to remove the PDF file.
For details of how to submit your paper, please click here.
Permanence of publication
Please note that publication of a working paper on the LUMS website may mean that your paper could be archived by external third-party websites (for instance: http://www.archive.org/). Even if your paper is subsequently removed from the LUMS website, there can be no guarantee that the paper will be removed from third-party archive sites.
