Friday, November 20, 2009

Academic Etiquette

Via Gary King's page, this guide to academic etiquette from the Chronicle of Higher Education has some gems

link here

2 comments:

Liam Delaney said...

some nice articles in the chronicle more generally

http://ow.ly/BoGk

Kevin Denny said...

A very nice piece that is hard to quibble with.But..what does "don't steal ideas" translate to in practice? If I see Professor X has done something in a published paper that it has to be okay for me to do the same or something based on it provided I acknowledge it.
What if its available in unpublished format, like a wp? Say I write a piece based on X's working paper & submit it. I could get mine published before X's if I am quick about it. That could make it more difficult for X and of course my paper becomes "the first published paper" on the topic.
I think this is why in many fields unpublished papers (like wp's) are much less available than in economics where publication lags are unusually long.People are afraid of being ripped off.