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1 Register and Login
2 Personal Space Management
3 Submit Paper Online
4 Paper Management
5 Paper Rank
6 Publishing Certificate
7 Certificate for Paper Rank
8 Copyright Ownership
9 Comments Management
10 Searching Papers
11 Reading Papers
12 Collection
13 Tag
14 Recommendation

> Contents
1 Registration and Login
1.1 Register
   Please click register on the homepage of Sciencepaper Online to enter the user registration page, fill in individual information according to facts, and submit. We will send you a confirmation email to your registered email box. Please login your email box, check the email, and click the link in the email to complete the registration.
1.2 Login
   Please click login on the homepage, and input your user name and password to login your private toolbox. The user name is the complete email address you have registered, and there must be no excess blanks before, after or in the user name
1.3 Forgot Password
   If you have forgotten your password, please click forgot password on the login page, input the registered email box, and click send. You will receive an email with password change link. Please click the link to enter the password change page, input a new password, and submit. You can login with the new password then.

2 Personal Space Management
   You can learn about the latest update of the main columns of the website, submit your papers, make comments, manage your collections and tags, change your password, and revise your information in your personal space.
2.1 Change Password
   Please login your personal space, click change password at left, and input the original password and new password to complete the operation.
2.2 Revise Information
   Please login your personal space, click revise information at left, revise relative contents, and submit.

3 Submit Paper Online
3.1 Submit Paper
   Please login your private toolbox, click submit online, correctly fill in the paper information, upload the paper file, and click submit. Then your paper is listed in the paper for review, and the paper state becomes for review, which indicates that the submission is successful.
3.2 Paper Format
   Please edit your paper according to the paper format, and save your paper as .doc file. If your file is too large, please compress pictures for decrease the file size, and upload again. Please avoid rush time and close the file before uploading.
3.3 Paper Assessment Principle and Cycle
   The primary assessment mainly aims at whether the paper has value on innovation and science. Commonly the preliminary assessment result will be given within 7 workdays. You can login your private toolbox to check the paper state (for review, published, or returned).
   The paper will be transferred to the published paper list automatically after it is published; and the paper needing revision will be transferred in the returned paper list with corresponding return reason, and you can re-submitting it according to the return reason or submitting it to other publications.

4 Paper Management
4.1 Management of paper for review
   You can revise or withdraw the paper for review.
   Revise: You can revise the paper information or file and re-submit the paper. The default submission time of the website is the last successful submission time, so the paper assessment time will be correspondingly delayed.
   Withdraw: You can login your private toolbox, and click withdraw corresponding to the paper in the list of papers for review. The withdrawn paper will be transferred to the draft box, and you can re-submit or delete it.
4.2 Returned Paper Management
   You can revise, submit or delete the returned paper.
   Please click to enter the returned paper list, read the return reason, click the paper number to enter the paper information page, revise corresponding paper information, upload the revised paper, and click submit. The paper will be transferred to the list of papers for review automatically.
   You can also delete the returned paper by clicking delete corresponding to the paper. The deleted paper is unrecoverable.
4.3 Published Paper Management
   In the published paper list, you can read the paper information, download times and new comments, print the publishing certificate of the paper, upload revised edition of the paper, and add collection condition of the paper.
   The published papers can not be withdrawn according to the rule of the website. You can further revise, supplement, and perfect the paper based on the published paper, and upload the revised edition of the paper in your private toolbox. The revised edition will be published together with the original paper, but the revised edition can not replace the original paper or get the peer review.
4.4 Draft Box Management
   If errors emerge in the submission process, the filled information will be automatically saved into the draft box. You can click the paper in the draft box and complete the operation, and then the paper will be transferred to the list of papers for review.
   You can also delete the paper in the draft box directly by clicking delete corresponding to the paper. The deleted paper is unrecoverable.

5 Paper Rank
   If you select "agree to peer review" when submitting paper online, your paper will be transferred into peer review system automatically, and get a rank according to the peer review result, which will be published on the website. The peer review cycle is commonly 1-3 months. You can login the peer review system (http://www.pes.edu.cn/login.do) to check the review state of your paper.

6 Publishing Certificate
   If your paper is adopted by the website, we will provide you with the publishing certificate, and you can print it by yourself.
   Please install flash software, login the private toolbox, click the print publishing certificateat left, input the paper ID, and print.

7 Certificate for Paper Rank
   Sciencepaper Online freely provides the authors with rank certificate for their papers published online and having gotten the rank.
   Please login your private toolbox, submit the application for printing the rank certificate, and fill in the detailed correspondence address and post/zip code according to requirement. We will print the rank certificate and mail it to you.
   The rank certificate is mailed as ordinary mail, and usually you can receive it within a week. If you want to receive it in a shorter time, we can mail it to you by express (paid by received). If you need the rank certificate to be expressed, please contact us through paper@paper.edu.cn, or we will mail it as ordinary mail.

8 Copyright Ownership
   Sciencepaper Online is an online platform for researchers to quickly release scientific research achievements and exchange innovative ideas. The website is not a journal, and papers published on the website are not formally published. The copyright of the published papers belong to the authors, and we allow the authors to contribute to other professional journals.
   The papers contributed to the website must have not been published, namely, the papers having been published on professional journals can not be contributed to Sciencepaper Online, but if the paper has been contributed to a professional journal but has not been published, you can contribute it to Sciencepaper Online.
   Sciencepaper Online is a public welfare website, and it is totally free for publishing papers.

9 Comments Management
   You can discuss the research papers with other authors online when reading papers. There is an area for you to make comments at the bottom of the paper page. The comments will be published in forum type, in which you can reply to the published comments as well as publish new comments. When you browse the scholar column, you can also leave massages to the scholars you want to communicate with. The website will automatically send an e-mail to the scholar to remind the scholar to check and reply to your massage in time.
   We try our best to build nice academic atmosphere, promote academic criticism, and give a platform for researchers to exchange creative ideas. The comments can be published after review. You can check the state of your comments in your personal space, and revise or delete the unpublished comments. Once a new comment is made on your paper, we will send you a prompt email for reminding you to read and reply to the comments in time.
   You can vote for or against others' comments as well as publish comments. The same paper only accepts one vote from the same user each day.

10 Searching Papers
   The website provides two full-text search types, namely quick search and advanced search. You can use the quick search on the home page of the website. The advanced search provides more specific and directive search, which has multiple selectable browse types according to publication time, comprehensive evaluation, column, etc.
10.1 Quick full-text search
   If you don't remember exact information about the paper, but only remember some parts of the paper, you can use the quick full-text search to find the paper. Please input all or partial information of some words of a paper to the quick search box on the home page at the right side of the navigation bar, and click the Search to obtain the results.
10.2 Advanced full-text search
   Please click the advanced search link on the home page to enter the search page. Please input relevant information to the input box, select qualifications (any words/all words/the exact phrase) in the drop-down menu, and select the search location (anywhere/full text/article title/ author/abstract/keywords) in the following drop-down menu. The advanced search also provides selection of subjects and publication time for decreasing search range, and can give search result lists with different exhibition orders and numbers for facilitating your use.

11 Reading Papers
   Please install pdf reader software for reading papers on Sciencepaper Online. The website provides multiple paper ranking ways, including the latest papers, the latest peer reviews, downloads, comprehensive evaluations, hot papers, and subject classification.
11.1 Reading online papers
   You can browse the newest research achievements on the website, for the website has short paper publication cycle. The first-published papers are classified according to subjects which are subdivided into the second-level subjects, so you can find the latest research papers of the subject you need. You can select the most needed papers via reading titles and abstracts, click the full-text link for open the pdf paper in a webpage, and read it for free.
11.2 Reading online outstanding papers
   The website provides free peer review service, which gives five ranks from 1 to 5 stars and displays corresponding rank in each paper page. You can selectively read the outstanding papers with ranks above 4 stars. You can find the papers you need according to subjects in the latest peer reviewed papers.

12 Collection
   You can collect the first-published papers, scholars and theirs papers of interest to your personal space under login state, for facilitating downloading and reading. At the same time, you can login your personal space periodically and manage your collections, add or cancel the collections as needed. The website counts the collections of the resources, providing you with reference for knowing about the hot research directions at present.

13 Tag
   You can use simple words as tags, and classify the papers of interest according to your own comprehension. The website provides you with tag editing function. You can manage your tags and search your tags or the papers with your tags in your personal space. You can know about topical issues of the online users via the statistics of the tags added by all users.

14 Recommendation and E-mail to Friends
   You can make a comprehensive recommendation to the first-published paper on the innovation, science, and standard, which has five levels. You can also recommend the practicality of the papers in the sciencepaper summary column. The website will count the recommendation time and person-time for objectively giving the papers comprehensive evaluation, so as to facilitate the users to fast obtain valuable information.
   If you think some papers or scholars have significance for your friend, you can send the links of the papers or the scholars in an E-mail to your friend with recommendation reasons. The functions are designed for facilitating your reading and communication.