Re: First ever GSL Technical Report (ALFs)

[Liam Healy]

I suggest archiving on Zenodo https://zenodo.org/. This will provide
permanent storage and a DOI. Subsequent revisions will get their own DOI,
but there is also a generic DOI. You can even make a GSL "community"
https://zenodo.org/communities/.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 4:21 AM Mike Marchywka <marchywka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 11:24:53PM -0700, Patrick Alken wrote:
> > Thanks Mark,
> >
> >   I don't think it is suitable for publication in a journal.
> > There is nothing novel here, its just technical details of how
> > to calculate ALFs efficiently.
>
> But how should other people cite your work? This is a recurring problem
> for me and I have created a developmental tool maybe similar to
> Zotero for obtaining bibtex from many random links. When I post
> pdf "tech reports", for example,
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mike_Marchywka
>
> I try to include human AND machine readable bibtex.
> If you look at any of my recent pdf files there is always a suggsted
> version at the end although I'm not sure if Zotero or Toobib
> can find that. In the extended information I include
> bibtex info but have not found a well accepted or commonly
> used way to do this ( tug.org website in particular does not
> seem to have an easy way to cite their works unless you know
> about their lookup -table page )
> Its not hard to do this with latex and I can contribute
> the few lines I use to do it if anyone wants it.
>
> For example,
> exifutil -list covidup.pdf
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> X-bib-address                   :  306 Charles Cox , Canton GA 30115
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>
>
>
> >
> > I'll see if I can fix the formatting issue on eq. 36. Its a
> > good idea to cite GSL, I will add that :)
> >
> > Patrick
> >
> > On 2/16/22 22:51, Mark Galassi wrote:
> > > Patrick, this is a great paper.  It shows the same care you apply to
> maintaining gsl.  The writing is also very clear, and I love the table of
> acronyms :-).  Do you plan to submit for publication in a numerical
> analysis journal, or submit to the arXiv?
> > >
> > > The only previous quasi-report had been the ongoing design document
> that I kept going with James and Brian in the early years, but it is a
> working design doc, not anything of the scope you have shown here.
> > >
> > > Tiny suggestions: alignment of equation 36 on page 5: "l >= 1" could
> be moved quite a bit to the left.  Maybe an extra & to make it match the
> start of the l >= 1, m > 0.
> > >
> > > You might also want to also cite the reference manual (as we ask
> people to do when they use gsl :-) ).  A recent bibtex skeleton on that is
> the 2019 Network Theory edition.
> > >
> > > @book{gslteam2019gnuscientificlibrary,
> > >    title={GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual},
> > >    author={Galassi, Mark and Davies, Jim and Theiler, James and Gough,
> Brian and Jungman, Gerard and Alken, Patrick and Booth, Michael and Rossi,
> Fabrice and Ulerich, Rhys},
> > >    year={2019},
> > >    isbn={9780954612078},
> > >    publisher={Network Theory Limited}
> > > }
> >
>
> --
>
> mike marchywka
> 306 charles cox
> canton GA 30115
> USA, Earth
> marchywka@hotmail.com
> 404-788-1216
> ORCID: 0000-0001-9237-455X
>
>