Dear Colleagues
I have been engaged in the annual collection data concerning my colleagues'
research productivity. Text-books are out; conference proceedings are out unless
there is evidence of a review process; reviews are out (even though they are
often longer than whole articles in scientific journals.
I am particularly galled by two recent exclusions. They are:
Dugald McLellan. Signorelli's Orvieto Frescoes. Orvieto: Opera del Duomo and
Perugia: Quattroemme, 1998. ISBN 88 85962 30 0.
I quote:
"These were returned to you as we couldn't find [the publisher] Quattroemme's
home page on
the internet. We usually print out the homepage as this usually "proves"
DETYA's [Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs] criteria on
commerial publishers: viz: "the core business is producing books and
distributing them for sale".
Can you direct me to their web site?
A listing in a trade show [the Frankfurt Book Fair] is insufficient evidence for
DETYA and they
indicate that at audit the onus is on the University claiming the publications
to prove that they have been correctly classified.
As well the documentation indicates that the book is a guide to the frescoes of
the cathedral: this in itself is a DETYA exclusion being in the nature of a
commentary rather than DETYA's definitions of research
My second case is an article by Giovanni Carsaniga, " An Additional Look at
London Additional 19987." Musica Disciplina 48 (1994): 283-297.
Musica Disciplina is published in Rome by the American Institute of Musicology,
yet by current definitions, it is "unrefereed". (Indeed, should our university
library continue to subscribe?) It has been rejected by our Research Office.
Our problem is shared by colleagues in other languages, who publish in
influential journals edited by distinguished individuals, where the recognized
process of "refereeing" is unknown.
How do other universities deal with the problem?
Nerida
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Nerida Newbigin
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Department of Italian, A26
University of Sydney,
NSW 2006 Australia
Tel +61 2 9351 3584
Fax +61 2 9351 3407
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