Can anybody help us by telling us what they think of Linguistics Abstracts?
They wrote to me as an Editor of jipa asking us to to send them abstracts.
I passed the request on to Patrick McCartan at Cambridge, who replied
as below. If we nobody on this list replies we'll know what to think.
Thanks all
Peter
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>Hi Peter,
>
>OK, I'll arrange to set this up. But I have to say I'm not a keen supporter
>of the project. The publishers of Linguistics Abstracts receive free
>journals from participating publishers (of which Cambridge is a significant
>one) and simply cut and paste the abstracts in the various journals into
>Linguistics Abstracts - there is no editing of abstracts in Cambridge
>journals, as far as I can see - for which they charge institutions the
>princely sum of $1055 a year.
>
>I'd be interested for your thoughts, in particular how widely LA is used by
>the community. I could well be mistaken of course about the amount of
>effort that it takes to create LA.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>Patrick
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