There are three paths you can take to get your case study published on the web. First, you can simply post your case study web pages on your own home page or school's Vital Signs site. Second, if you are willing to invest more time and energy, you can submit a case study to Vital Signs. We'll consider including it in our Case Study Library as a part of our new refereed, on-line journal of building case studies. Third, your school can apply to borrow one of our Equipment Toolkits, and submit the resulting case studies. This page describes all three of these routes.

Publishing at Your School Web Site

This route to publishing your case study on the web is flexible and will vary from school to school. Discuss your desire to post your case study on your school's web site with a faculty member in your architecture department. With that teacher, develop criteria and a time schedule for your work.

The majority of the case-study work done by students will be published in this form. We will establish links from the Vital Signs web site to all case studies posted at school web sites. If you'd like to see some of the work published in this format, check out our current list of links to Case Studies at Schools in North America.

For useful guidance on composing and formatting your case study web pages, consult our Style Guide for Case-Study Web Pages. It presents an overview of our web style and provides many examples to follow.

Publishing on the Vital Signs Web Site

We maintain a refereed "on-line" journal of building case studies that will appear on the Vital Signs web site. By refereed, we mean that case studies submitted for publication "on-line" will be reviewed by one or more members of a panel drawn from educators and researchers at architecture schools and related institutions. We encourage students and educators from architecture and architectural engineering programs to submit studies. Should you submit a study for publication, three outcomes are possible.

• First, the reviewers could deem your study acceptable for web publication in the form submitted.
• Second, the reviewers could suggest that your study not be published. In this case we'll offer you the opportunity to respond to the review comments, and may send your study out for a second review in light of your response.
• Third, the reviewers may recommend your study be published with revisions. In this case, we'll ask you to respond to the reviewers' comments. We'll offer you a chance to revise the study and/or present your reasoning for why revisions are not required. Your study will then be reconsidered for publication by the reviewers.

Our long term goal is to create a library of case studies of building performance that will be accessible to students, educators, and professionals from around the world.

Student studies submitted for possible publication must include a support letter from a faculty member. All studies must be submitted "web ready", following the Vital Signs Style Guide for Case-Study Web Pages as closely as possible.

If you would like to submit a study for publication, contact Cris Benton, the Vital Signs project principle investigator at crisp@socrates.berkeley.edu for more information.

Publishing Case Studies Arising from Equipment Toolkit Loans

Now that our first academic year of toolkit loans has come to a close, we offer to post case studies from the schools that borrowed toolkits. Those who borrow toolkits in the future will also have an opportunity to post their case studies.

Student studies submitted for possible publication must include a support letter from a faculty member. All studies must be submitted "web ready," preferably in PDF format.

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Created: 09/09/96
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