Category Archives: Publishing

REF delay to be announced

Posted on July 8, 2010 by stuartelden

The Times Higher Education Supplement has the news that the UK Research Exercise Framework (the Research Assessment Exercise replacement) will be delayed for a year. This means publications between 2008 and 2013 will now ‘count’. This has some strange distorting effects … Continue reading →

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Academic labours

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

A major piece of editing and translating work is Thomas Hobbes, The Correspondence Volume I: 1622-1659, and Volume II: 1660-1679, edited by Noel Malcolm, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. The correspondence was previously only available in part, but Malcolm gathered all … Continue reading →

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New Foucault journal

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

http://www.materialifoucaultiani.org

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Cartographica – new editor required

Posted on June 29, 2010 by stuartelden

Cartographica requires a new editor – Jeremy Crampton is coming to the end of his term. CALL FOR EDITOR Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization   Applications are invited for the editorship of Cartographica. The University of … Continue reading →

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Peer Review

Posted on June 18, 2010 by stuartelden

I’ve just been alerted to this argument concerning peer-review via a message on Crit-Geog-Forum   And one of the commentators on that sent a link to this piece in the Times Higher.   There’s one key thing that these kinds of comments … Continue reading →

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The work of editors…

Posted on June 16, 2010 by stuartelden

In the Institute of Historical Research library today, looking at the five volume Folger Library edition of the Works of Richard Hooker. It’s a big project – the five volumes were published between 1977 and 1990, and there are separate … Continue reading →

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University of Minnesota Press sale

Posted on June 10, 2010 by stuartelden

http://www.upress.umn.edu/catalog/SeasonalCatalogs.html 30% of Geography books…

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Speculations journal news

Posted on June 10, 2010 by stuartelden

The new Speculations journal will have its launch issue in July. Details here on the contents and design – the journal is open-access.

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overcommitment

Posted on June 8, 2010 by stuartelden

The very interesting medievalist Jeffrey Jerome Cohen has a good post on overcommitment… It’s easy to say ‘no’ when the invitations are unexciting; much harder when they are interesting opportunities. The ‘problem’ is I nearly always get asked to do … Continue reading →

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Writing

Posted on June 8, 2010 by stuartelden

Graham Harman has a really interesting post on writing here. As I’ve said several times in conversation (and I think once in print) I’m fascinated by how academics write – it’s the one thing we all do, but rarely talk about. … Continue reading →

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