i don't think very many people are against the publishing of conference papers online or offline in journals, books, whatever, but I think we are against having a situation that precludes that. Publication is for the author to decide, and sometimes publishing an article online in an online proceedings that is publicly available will preclude publishing it elsewhere. and i think it is quite apparent that online publications are cited more, but the archives for members are not publications and most of the articles should not be cited without authors permission, in fact none of those articles are in any way published by aoir when they sit in that archive, they are just shared as occasionally shares a preprint of an article among friends and colleagues. On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 11:37 AM, Tom Hope wrote:
Hi everyone I've only just joined the list and wasn't sure if 'intros' were appropriate, but the discussion has taken my interest. Like Denise, part of my own PhD (I'm in the final year... er.. getting to 'writing up') is an online ethnography. In both courses that I teach, I also make extensive use of online journals, and encourage my students to do the same. Other members of staff here have gone with the 'dubious' quality argument for online material, a fact which, in my opinion, doesn't help the students ability to associate the topics with their own lives, and contributes to the devaluing of that format. There is definitely an argument for more established academics to allow their conference papers to be published, if only to open the way for a better judgement of online academic material. Researches of online environments should surely be the first to support this. Regards, Tom
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