When you submit your project for publication in SEED Journal you need to adhere to certain guidelines.

Intellectual Property

The project you are submitting must be your own work. Including text or images created by others in your report without proper credit is plagiarism and in unacceptable to SEED.

It is permissible to quote limited excerpts from the work of others. If you do so, the text should be set off in quotation marks or as a small paragraph, and the source should be indicated.

If you wish to use images or multimedia content from web sites or other sources you will have to obtain permission to do so. In some cases, the publisher of a web site will grant permission to reproduce images and indicate this on the web site itself. For example, NASA and the US Geologiacal Survey do so.

If such permission is not explicitly granted you must obtain it in writing via letter or email. Here is a sample of such a request:

Dear ___,
We are submitting a project about <subject of your project> for publication in

(URL: http://www.seed.slb.com/en/scictr/journal/). We would like your permission to include the following image(s) found on your web site:

• < Describe the images and give the URLS where they are found>

We will credit you as the source and provide a link to your web site.

Thank you,
< your name(s)>

In most cases, webmasters will be happy to grant such permission. When you submit your project to SEED Journal, also send us copies of emails or letters you have received granting permission for you to use images or other content. The same requirements apply if you wish to use scanned images from books or magazines. We cannot publish your project if we do not have a record of such permission.

As long as you follow the above guidelines it is acceptable to include text, images and multimedia content produced and owned by others. But, this is your report, so it will be stronger and more effective if most or all of the content originates with you.

By submitting a project to SEED Journal for publication you are affirming that it meets these Intellectual Property guidelines.

Format

Your project must be in electronic form, not on paper. It may be submitted in one of these formats:

1. a word processing document with images and charts included.
2. a web site that we may view on our local computers. Send us an email attachment with the site as a Zip file, or put it on a CD ROM and mail it to us, or put it on an FTP site and send us instructions on how to download it.
3. a web site that we may view on the Internet. In this case, send us the URL.
   Power Point is not an acceptable format for SEED Journal.

We suggest that you keep your project as small as possible without sacrificing content that you want to include. Text and a modest number of images do not take up much space, but large high resolution images, Flash animations, and movies can require a great deal of memory. Since you are submitting your project for publication on the Web, keep in mind that many people do not have high-speed Internet access. If your project is too heavy it will be difficult or impossible for them to view it.

If you have any questions about these guidelines, please contact us.

When you are ready to submit a project or a project overview to SEED Journal click here.