How to make papers public after decisions are made

Your venue's Workflow Timeline has two steps that release submissions once decisions are posted:

• Accepted Submission Release updates submissions whose decision is one of the accept options. They are marked as accepted and get a publication date.

• Rejected Submission Release updates all other submissions that have a decision. They are marked as rejected.

Submissions without a decision are not changed by either step. Both steps run automatically on their Activation Date. By default, they release submissions to the Program Chairs, the assigned Senior Area Chairs, Area Chairs and Reviewers, and the submission's authors. Submissions are not made public unless you select Public.

1. Make sure all decisions are posted and that the accept options are correct. In the Decision step, click Edit next to Decision Options and check the Accept Decision Options.

2. Find the Accepted Submission Release step. The Workflow Timeline lists it as Create Accepted Submission Release.

3. Click Edit next to Readers, select Public, and click Submit.

4. Click Edit next to Dates, set the Activation Date to when the accepted papers should be released, and click Submit.

5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 in the Rejected Submission Release step. To keep rejected submissions private instead, select the readers who should keep access, for example Program Chairs and Submission Authors.

The Create Accepted Submission Release step, as Program Chairs see it.

Public can't be combined with other options. If you don't select Public, you must select Program Chairs.

Releasing submissions doesn't reveal the authors' identities. To show author names on accepted papers only, see How to release the identities of authors of accepted papers only.

After the Activation Date has passed, a release step runs again each time you edit it. If a decision changes after the release, edit both release steps again, for example by submitting their Dates again, so the submission is released by the step that matches its new decision.

Decisions have their own release step. To choose who can read the decisions, use the Decision Release step, in the same way as described in How to release reviews.