Mysteries of the Universe
Sunday, November 11th, 2007 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniAn Alert Fan asks us for information about our appearance on TGAMM FM Radio -- of which I have no remembrance at all. Anybody catch the show? How'd we do?
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A few weeks ago, in pursuit of the goals of my employment, I was updating a faculty member's bibliography. The faculty member in question is very well-published and in addition to a solid handful of chapters and articles, I had two new books to record. Flipping the first book open to the title page, I recorded the title, author, isbn, glanced at the copyright date -- and blinked. For the copyright holder listed is not my prolific faculty member, but the President and Board of Directors of Harvard College. Curiously, I crack the second book, which is -- copyrighted by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
At this point, another faculty member stopped by my office to discuss some photocopying they needed done, specifically showing me one of the marked chapters. "Look at this! They could have at least told me they were re-using this chapter from my book instead of leaving me to find out by accident!" I show them the copyright pages of the books I'm cataloging. They nod. "That's why they can reprint my chapter without telling me." I must have looked a little wild-eyed at this point, because they explained, "The contracts come with the copyright in the press' name. I guess I could change it, but I never saw the point." Perhaps I gibbered, because they added kindly, "Maybe it's different in the non-academic press?"
Uh, yeah. Maybe it is.
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Ever wonder where mad scientists go for their glassware? Wonder no longer Link gacked from Making Light.
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kinzel and I took a much-needed mini-vacation. Today, we do chores. And writing. See y'all later.
A few weeks ago, in pursuit of the goals of my employment, I was updating a faculty member's bibliography. The faculty member in question is very well-published and in addition to a solid handful of chapters and articles, I had two new books to record. Flipping the first book open to the title page, I recorded the title, author, isbn, glanced at the copyright date -- and blinked. For the copyright holder listed is not my prolific faculty member, but the President and Board of Directors of Harvard College. Curiously, I crack the second book, which is -- copyrighted by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
At this point, another faculty member stopped by my office to discuss some photocopying they needed done, specifically showing me one of the marked chapters. "Look at this! They could have at least told me they were re-using this chapter from my book instead of leaving me to find out by accident!" I show them the copyright pages of the books I'm cataloging. They nod. "That's why they can reprint my chapter without telling me." I must have looked a little wild-eyed at this point, because they explained, "The contracts come with the copyright in the press' name. I guess I could change it, but I never saw the point." Perhaps I gibbered, because they added kindly, "Maybe it's different in the non-academic press?"
Uh, yeah. Maybe it is.
Ever wonder where mad scientists go for their glassware? Wonder no longer Link gacked from Making Light.
Yesterday,
kinzel and I took a much-needed mini-vacation. Today, we do chores. And writing. See y'all later.
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Date: 2007-11-11 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-12 12:20 am (UTC)I'm in history at a major Land Grant who really pushes publication after tenure- at the least as someone on the peer review board of a minor journal. Most of our pre/early-modern profs keep publishing a book about every 5 years and pull an article or two out of it in addition.