A brief addition to the Policies for the Publication and Presentation of STAR Results is proposed and included in the revision that is attached.  

The motivation for this change was a request from the STAR spokesperson, Zhangbu Xu.  In the recent RHIC Facility Scieince and Technology Review the DoE recommended that STAR should upload our Published STAR Results as they appear linked from the STAR Publications Page(s) into the HepData site.  Zhangbu asked for clarification of the definition of Published STAR Results in the context of the fact that in two instances over the past six years, additional STAR Results were uploaded to the STAR Publications Page(s) associated with specific publications but which STAR Results were not included in the associated published paper.  In both cases, this action was endorsed by the spokesperson as an exception to the Policies.  (Details and references to the two cases can be provided upon request.)  

The Publications Policies Committee (PPC) reviewed these two instances.  It was our opinion that we should adhere to the present definition of Published STAR Results but to allow for rare instances in which STAR Results that did not appear in the specific paper but were reviewed and approved by the STAR PWG(s), the GPC, and the spokesperson at the time of the paper review for publication could, subject to specific provisions, be included in the link to the STAR Results associated with this paper.