Okay, perhaps attack is the wrong word - but I thought this might start some interesting conversation - especially if there are some music fans on this forum. See link to article below:http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/

Dear all,

Just a quick advice question from a long-time lurker, new academic. I'm a first-year doctoral student at a UK university in a humanities field. During the viva voce examination for my earlier master's this summer at that same university, the external examiner (an academic I particularly admire and respect) was quite kind about two shorter ( Read more... )

After submitting a paper to a journal, when should you expect to hear back?  Is there a generally accepted timeframe for (humanities) journals ( Read more... )

For those who missed it: The US Government is currently hosting a "public consultation on Public Access Policy...seeking public input on access to publicly-funded research results, such as those that appear in academic and scholarly journal articles."  It's similar in scope to what's already required for NIH-funded research, but extending it to ( Read more... )

[Disclaimer: This post is in no way a request for your help with academic work. I'm not currently a student, either, and I don't know any professors I could ask for this information ( Read more... )

  
   A follow-up to my previous post re: the impact factor of the Nebula e-journal.

According to a list from the Australian Research Council (and since I'm angling for a place Down Under, their opinion is worth quite a bit to me), Nebula's actually very decent. Ranked A in a A*-A-B-C tiered system.ImageText, which was the unnamed journal I compared ( Read more... )

 
  Does anyone know anything about the general reliabilty/ prestiege of Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship? The CV of its contributers checks out OK, but its .biz suffix (which I have not encountered thus far) unaccountably worries me. 

The faculty of MIT voted unanimously to require publishers to allow open dissemination of their articles:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/open-access-0320.html

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Hi all--

When a journal (the Review of English Studies, to be exact) provides the following guideline for manuscript presentation--

Number footnotes consecutively throughout the paper. Type the footnotes in double spacing at the end of the manuscript, commencing on a separate sheet. An initial unnumbered footnote may be included giving brief ( Read more... )

Hi, Anonymous Academics,

(If you're not in literary studies, you might want to skip this entry.)

I was wondering what you might be able to tell me about the Southern Literary Journal.   I have a Faulkner article I'd like to place, but as this is my first time attempting to publish, I'm not sure what an appropriate venue would be.  Is SLJ a ( Read more... )