Contributing Fluid Dynamics Videos to the eCommons/arXiv System

1. The video or videos (which must be in MPEG format) are uploaded to eCommons, and the URLs of the video bitstreams are obtained.
2. A brief article (may be a page or less) or a full paper is submitted to arXiv, describing the videos and providing links to the URLs obtained in step 1.

1. Go to http://ecommons2.library.cornell.edu/fluid.html
2. Enter name and e-mail address, and “submit”
3. Follow the instructions on the subsequent screens
4. Obtain the URLs of the video bitstreams as follows:
   • From the My Account: Fluid Dynamics Generic Account screen, click on the View Accepted Submissions button
   • click on the title of your video
   • right click on View/Open and choose Properties -- which gives the URL OR click open, and the URL is visible

1. If you are not already registered with arXiv, go to http://arxiv.org/register and register.
2. If you are unfamiliar with arXiv, go to http://arxiv.org/help/submit for general instructions on submitting papers
3. Prepare the paper in pdflatex (see sample input file and resulting output). 
4. 1. To facilitate subsequent searching, use the exact phrase “fluid dynamics video” in the abstract.
   2. Link the video with the pdflatex command href{ecommons-URL}{video-name} and compile with pdflatex to make sure that the hyperlink is working
5. go to http://arxiv.org/submit  to submit the paper
6. 1. first page, part C select "Physics", "Fluid Dynamics" section
   2. second page, enter title, authors, abstract, upload files etc. as normal
   3. arXiv only accepts submission of .tex files.