Category Archives: Publishing

Three links to posts on publishing

Posted on February 17, 2012 by stuartelden

John Protevi reflects on the story that the University of Louisiana may lay claim to a part share of the royalties earned by members of faculty there. I particularly like this tangled metaphor from the Professor of English: “It’s sort … Continue reading →

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Foucault on Truth, Knowledge and Publishing

Posted on February 13, 2012 by stuartelden

This will to truth, like other systems of exclusion, relies on institutional support: it is both reinforced and accompanied by whole strata of practices such as pedagogy, of course, such as the book-system, publishing, libraries, such as the learned societies … Continue reading →

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Political Concepts

Posted on February 13, 2012 by stuartelden

Political Concepts – new online resource/journal. This project appears to be linked to the Tel Aviv University project Mafte’akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought that has some English entries, and some Hebrew translations. (The latter was the group that translated … Continue reading →

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Ian Bogost on Making Books and Writing Books

Posted on February 9, 2012 by stuartelden

Back when his book The Textual Life of Airports was published in December, Christopher Schaberg reported what most authors do: seeing his book for the first time. “What a weird feeling,” Chris wrote. “It resembles an object from outer space. … Continue reading →

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Elsevier launches ‘a new jounal’ – copyeditors required

Posted on February 7, 2012 by stuartelden
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Thrift on refereeing in crisis

Posted on January 31, 2012 by stuartelden

In the Chronicle of Higher Education. Thanks to Sam Kinsey for posting this in comments – I’ve reposted so it is more widely seen.

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On peer review

Posted on January 30, 2012 by stuartelden

A post on the difficulty of getting reports, here; and a post on how it’s not really a huge amount of work, with interesting comments, here. Another post raises the issue of who is asked to referee. And finally, a proposal … Continue reading →

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The History of Cartography – now free online

Posted on January 28, 2012 by stuartelden

The University of Chicago Press have made volume 1 and the three books of volume 2 of the magisterial History of Cartography freely available online. The homepage for the project as a whole is here.

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The Continuum Companion to Leibniz reviewed

Posted on January 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Continuum Companion to Leibniz is reviewed at NDPR – the whole review is open access, so will only quote a couple of telling lines: On the whole, the volume is of exceptional quality. Each and every article represents an … Continue reading →

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Anthology Chapters and Editing Books

Posted on January 15, 2012 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has an interesting post on problems with writing anthology chapters. His problems can be summarised as lack of citation relative to journal articles, and hence a perceived lack of readership; and the long delays from submission to publication. No … Continue reading →

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