SciDoc, SLAC's Scientific and Technical (STI) document management system, is SLAC's one-stop-gateway for your scientific document needs. Besides supporting DOE's mission to advance science and innovation, SciDoc provides enhanced functionality for registering, uploading, and managing your scientific and technical documents.

Last week, InfoMedia's Document Services team of the Computing Division, released SciDoc 1.2. In addition to adding elements to comply with new DOE requirements for Order 241.1B, this release automated a new patent self-review process for authors. What does this mean? You, the author, now have the ability to move through the patent self-review process with a click of a button! Integrating this functionality into SciDoc streamlines this review process, enabling SLAC's STI documents to be published and accessible within days while still making certain that our collective intellectual property is protected. This last quarter, InfoMedia processed and reported 400 scientific and technical documents. This new automated process improved the mean time to release documents from 60 days to 1 day.

What is next for SciDoc? SciDoc 1.3 will allow you to designate a release date for preprinted articles pending journal publication. This feature allows you to submit documents to SciDoc either before or while publishing to a journal, and at the same time protecting SLAC's intellectual property! In addition, once your article is published, you will have the ability to update the journal reference information in SciDoc.

For more information about SciDoc and SLAC's DOE contract requirements, please visit SciDoc. InfoMedia would like to hear your ideas on how we can improve SciDoc to support your publishing needs; please email Infomedia or Document Services to share your ideas!