no.1583-VALUE OF PUBL. IN DETERMINING RELEVANCE (Response #4)

From: Lynn Sipe <lsipe_at_calvin.usc.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:35:33 -0700
To: COLLDV-L_at_usc.edu
[Original posting on this topic appeared in COLLDV-L no.1460, was
reproduced with
Response #1 in no.1562; Response #2 appeared in no.1563; and #3 in no.
1570, part of which is reproduced here.]

From: "Earl W. Lee" <ewayne_at_mail.pittstate.edu>

>"Sounds all pretty bloody incestuous to me: no wonder so much academic
> scholarship is awfully boring and second rate. It's the old boy's
> old or girl's network that networks hard to protect and promote each
> other's junk. "You promote my junk, I'll promote yours.""
>
> Cliff Urr
> Senior Manager
> Aspen Systems
> Rockville, MD
>
That's how it works.  I know of a poet (quite prominent now) who graduated
from LSU and they publish all his poetry books.  He is at the U of A now,
and the U of A publishes the poetry books written by his students, grads of
U of A.  I guess the students here will get published through the local
Regents Press, etc., etc.,....  it leaves a slime trail like a snail...

Earl Lee
Received on Fri Sep 26 1997 - 08:33:52 EDT