Nerida Newbigin wrote:
>
> 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
> --
> 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
Dear Nerida,
Quattroemme does not have a web site as yet. They told me that if you
need to contact them for information on any of their publications, you
should use their regular e-mail address:
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Their address is:
Quattroemme srl
via Cestellini, 17
06087 Ponte San Giovanni (PG)
tel: 075 397249
fax: 075 397319
I hope this helps,
Rodney Lokaj
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