Re: ArXiv >~ Journals?
From: Jesse F. Hughes (jesse_at_phiwumbda.org)
Date: 08/09/04
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Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:09:01 +0200
David Eppstein <eppstein@ics.uci.edu> writes:
> In article <cf8g94$c70$1@panix2.panix.com>,
> lrudolph@panix.com (Lee Rudolph) wrote:
>
>> >>Yes, that is exactly my point. We no longer use journals to communicate.
>> >>We use them to recognize achievements.
>> ...
>> >So, people could not recognize achievements by only reading a paper?
>>
>> Certainly most members of "the tenure committee" (who are, by
>> custom and often by law, not members of the academic department
>> which has prepared ad submitted "the tenure applications") could
>> not do so, if the paper was about mathematics.
>
> Well, but that's what the external recommendation letters are for.
That kinda (further) prejudices the process against us competent but
unlikable types.
Yeah, yeah, I know I exaggerated with the "us competent" bit. Take it
as a hypothetical.
-- Jesse F. Hughes "Mathematicians don't fit in with a consistent view, unless you accept that to a strangely large extent they are acting under the influence of something very powerful, dark, and negative." -- James S. Harris
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