Publication policy

As a matter of policy, JLF users are strongly encouraged to publish or otherwise inform the scientific community about the results of their JLF experiments. As an open-access facility, a measure of LaserNetUS and JLF’s effectiveness is the number and quality of publications stemming from work at the facility. The decision of whether to publish and in what form(s) is the responsibility of the principal investigator and/or the experiment team leader.

Publication examples include:

• Journal articles
• Conference proceedings articles
• Books or book chapters
• Technical reports
• Dissertations
• Published patents
• Published abstracts
• Invited or contributed talks
• Popular articles
• Press reports

Acknowledgement requirement

For all presentations and publications resulting from work conducted in whole or in part at JLF, proposal teams must acknowledge JLF, LLNL, and the DOE Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences using the following boilerplate language:

This work was supported by the U.S. DOE Office of Science, Fusion Energy Sciences under Field Work Proposal No. SCW1836-1: LaserNetUS: Discovery Science and Inertial Fusion Energy research at the Jupiter Laser Facility, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344.

Reporting requirement

The possibility of publication will be discussed at the post-experiment debrief. Authors of all work published in the open literature that involves JLF, whether in whole or in part, are required to report the work to the facility as indicated:

• Peer-reviewed journal publications must be emailed to JLF Administrator Elaine Johnson at johnson330 [at] llnl.gov (johnson330[at]llnl[dot]gov) (a PDF copy of the published journal article, not a preprint) to be added to our compendium of peer-reviewed journal publications.
• Non-peer-reviewed documents must be emailed to Elaine Johnson at johnson330 [at] llnl.gov (johnson330[at]llnl[dot]gov) in their final, published form. In your email, include the document’s title, author list, and publication vehicle.
• Annual report: Regardless of publication status, all JLF users must send a one-page summary of their experiment by January 15th of the year following their experiment for inclusion into the JLF annual report. Use the JLF annual report template.