Edited by Kate Blackham, Thursday, 10 Oct 2024, 16:55
My paper is in the final stages of being prepared and I was asked to check the proofs. I've had to use an affiliation. I'm sure that in the journal I submitted to, the older papers I've read didn't include affiliations. So of course I have had to ask to be an independent scholar. Am I allowed to feel weird about this?
Like, it was peer-reviewed. I didn't just make the whole thing up. The journal I submitted it to is in the blinking OU library. My students know this paper is coming and they're absolutely going to be like, wait, but you work for the OU. Like....
Well them's the rules. My research is appreciated by the OU but please use one of my other affiliations...
I talked about this at length elsewhere. I won't repeat it here.
I've seen other academics at the OU put their recent papers in their email signatures and I thought I might like to do that with a link to the article in the OU library 😉
I googled the best way to do that and Harzing.com has a nice example, which I am totally going to steal and rework. In terms of the other things Anne-Wil mentions in the blog, well I'll mention it in Academia.edu, ResearchGate and ORCID, but there's a two year embargo so I can't post a version until that has passed. I don't mind talking vaguely about it here I guess although despite huge numbers of readers (24,000 views) I don't know the proportions of bots vs. hackers trying to guess my password vs. people who are here because they have even the vaguest interest in my ramblings.
Social media doesn't seem relevant to me. I don't do twix anymore. I've been on LinkedIn since 2010 or 2011. When I first joined I really rated it. But that was because I was coming from IT book editing and LinkedIn was populated almost entirely by programmers. I used to get a lot of work through IT book publishers finding my profile. I don't rate LinkedIn anymore and thanks to being a freelancer/working remotely as an AL/autism my number of connections hasn't really grown much since about 2015. The other thing is, as I understand it, the algorithm punishes you for posting content that people don't interact with. Well no one in my connection list is going to be remotely interested in my paper. So it would be wrong to share it. It would actually do me damage.
At the proof stage
My paper is in the final stages of being prepared and I was asked to check the proofs. I've had to use an affiliation. I'm sure that in the journal I submitted to, the older papers I've read didn't include affiliations. So of course I have had to ask to be an independent scholar. Am I allowed to feel weird about this?
Like, it was peer-reviewed. I didn't just make the whole thing up. The journal I submitted it to is in the blinking OU library. My students know this paper is coming and they're absolutely going to be like, wait, but you work for the OU. Like....
Well them's the rules. My research is appreciated by the OU but please use one of my other affiliations...
I talked about this at length elsewhere. I won't repeat it here.
I've seen other academics at the OU put their recent papers in their email signatures and I thought I might like to do that with a link to the article in the OU library 😉
I googled the best way to do that and Harzing.com has a nice example, which I am totally going to steal and rework. In terms of the other things Anne-Wil mentions in the blog, well I'll mention it in Academia.edu, ResearchGate and ORCID, but there's a two year embargo so I can't post a version until that has passed. I don't mind talking vaguely about it here I guess although despite huge numbers of readers (24,000 views) I don't know the proportions of bots vs. hackers trying to guess my password vs. people who are here because they have even the vaguest interest in my ramblings.
Social media doesn't seem relevant to me. I don't do twix anymore. I've been on LinkedIn since 2010 or 2011. When I first joined I really rated it. But that was because I was coming from IT book editing and LinkedIn was populated almost entirely by programmers. I used to get a lot of work through IT book publishers finding my profile. I don't rate LinkedIn anymore and thanks to being a freelancer/working remotely as an AL/autism my number of connections hasn't really grown much since about 2015. The other thing is, as I understand it, the algorithm punishes you for posting content that people don't interact with. Well no one in my connection list is going to be remotely interested in my paper. So it would be wrong to share it. It would actually do me damage.