Anyone wishing to submit materials for posting on the Slovak Studies Association website must be a member in good standing of the Slovak Studies Association. If you are unsure of the current status of your membership, contact the Association's secretary, John Berta, by e-mail at: bertaj@soc.mil, or by regular mail at: Social Sciences Division; Methodist College; 5400 Ramsey Street; Fayetteville, North Carolina 28304, USA, for verification of your status. Your membership status will be verified by the webmaster before any materials that you submit are officially posted on the site.

1) Materials for submission must be provided in well-written, edited copy. The webmaster generally posts submitted materials "as is", i.e., the webmaster performs only occasional minor editing of submitted documents and takes no responsibility for errors arising from mistakes in the original submitted copy.

 

2) Materials may be submitted by several methods:

 

a) Incorporated directly into the body of an e-mail message
Submissions using this method are highly encouraged, since they present the fewest technological difficulties for the webmaster. Note that this method does not allow for direct typing of Slovak diacritics in the body of the e-mail message. However, text with Slovak diacritics that is "pasted" directly into an e-mail message from a word processing document generally appears with other characters replacing the Slovak diacritic characters, and this type of text is easily reconverted to its original form upon receipt by reinstating the diacritic characters.
Send submissions to: lauersdorf@uky.edu (SSA Webmaster).

 

b) As an attachment to an e-mail message
This method allows for fairly reliable preservation of Slovak diacritics in the submitted document. If using this method of submission, please indicate in your e-mail message which word processor was used to create the attached document. The webmaster is currently unable to work with attachments created in certain word processors due to technological constraints and may request the resubmission of the document using another word processor or using a different method of submission if he is unable to work with the original attached document.
Send submissions to: lauersdorf@uky.edu (SSA Webmaster).

 

d) In hard copy by regular mail
This method allows for reliable preservation of full diacritics in documents submitted in Slovak. However, it is the most labor-intensive of the submission methods for the webmaster, since documents submitted in this way must be retyped for posting on the website. Retyping also increases the potential for the introduction of errors that were not originally present in the submitted document.
Send submissions to: Dr. Mark R. Lauersdorf; Department of Modern and Classical Languages; 1055 PAtterson Office Tower; University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027, USA.

 

3) Since there is always the possibility that errors may "creep into" submitted documents during the process of posting them on the website, all contributors will be asked to check a draft version of their submissions before a final version is officially posted on the site. This allows contributors to make last-minute changes to their text and to catch any textual errors that may have been made by the webmaster. Documents that have not been reviewed in this manner by their contributor (or in another manner agreed upon by the webmaster and the contributor) will not be posted on the website. Please note that while contributors are encouraged at all times to make changes and updates to the information that they have provided, requests from contributors to make changes to the visual presentation and formatting of the web document where their information appears will be considered only in rare instances.