Reference Database Contributions

Contributing to the MIJ-NSR reference database

The reference database of the MRS Internet Journal of Nitride Semiconductor Research depends on contributions to make it complete. It started with about 200 recent references, including abstracts, and about about 300 older ones, without abstracts. Readers have contributed several hundred, and many more have been submitted in conjuction with papers submitted to the journal. (Although we can search on the abstracts, we cannot make the text available unless we have permission from the copyright holders. (That means the journals, not the authors.))

The data in the database has a number of shortcomings.

The older items have no abstracts.
Some newer items list only the first three authors.
Only one original item had a citation list available.
Some items have some ideosyncratic capitalization, (Algan, Inn), and no superscripts or subscripts.
New items need to be added. This is partly being done by a group of volunteers. To participate, contact the journalmaster.
There are few books in the database.

You'll probably want to start by making sure your own papers have been properly entered. Start by checking to make sure they're not already there. Do a search on the first three authors' last names. Searching will always be more up-to-date than the listings by author or by journal.

If the paper is already in the database, but needs updating, use the update button on its page.
If the paper is not in the database, use the contribution form below.
If you want to add a list of references for an item in the databases, use the list builder buttons on the page for each reference item.
If the reference you want to add is a book, or an article in a Conference proceedings that is not part of a series such as MRS Proceedings, you should use the book contribution form.
In any field, you can use SGML names to represent special characters. For example, "ç is written "ç".
In the title and abstract fields, you can indicate subscripts and superscripts like this: ¹⁴N₂ is written 14N2 (Only the newest browsers support these tags). If you need to use the characters > or < in these fields, you should use the HTML names, > or <. > and < should never appear in other fields, or strange things may happen!

After you submit something, your contribution will not be put into the database immediately. This is because the merging process has some peculiarities that make it hard to automate completely. You will receive e-mail when your contribution has been added.

Finally, some rules:

You must be a registered user to submit a contribution.
Only articles published in refereed journals and books may be entered in the database. (No pre-prints, unless cited by articles to be published in the journal.)
Only articles that are related to nitride semiconductor research or are to be cited by papers published in MIJ-NSR should be entered in the database.

The Reference Database Contribution Form, Part 1 of 3

This form is for new references.
Your Personal ID:

Your Password:

Article Title:

Authors (one name per line, initials first, leave out suffixes like Jr., III): AB Firstauthor CD Secondauthor

Abstract:
Crystal growth from the solution under high N2 pressure (HNP method) results in high quality mm size crystals of GaN in a 5 to 24 hour process.

Summary (The Journal will use this instead of an abstract for references whose copyright holders do not permit us to make the abstract available.:

Journal Name:

Volume:

Number:

Year:

Pages:

Cited references (this should be a list of reference ID's; the form is firstauthor-journalabbrev-volume-page You can also use the list builder buttons to build this list. Leave the space blank if you're using the list builder.:
When you submit a contribution, you will be asked to review the data you have entered, and to confirm that it is correct.