How does the electronic publishing of the proceedings work?
The papers accepted at STACS are uploaded by the Program Committee chairs onto the open access repository HAL, which is managed by the main agencies for public research in France, and onto the Dagstuhl online publication server DROPS. HAL is located in France, DROPS is located in Germany, but both are freely accessible by anyone and from anywhere. In addition, if authors permit it, papers are also deposited on the CoRR (Computing Research Repository), a part of arXiv, established under the auspices of the ACM and Cornell University. The different volumes of STACS Proceedings, corresponding to the different years, are made available as separate pages on the stacs-conf.org site. They are also constituted as overlays of HAL and DROPS. Each paper deposited in HAL, arXiv and DROPS receives a unique and permanent URL, as well as a unique identifier which can be used to view the paper and to cite it (see question 2.4). The identifiers attributed by HAL and arXiv conform to the OAI standard (O
