Re: SCIENCE TODAY?

On 10 Feb 1999, Karen Coyle <karen.coyle[_at_]ucop.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, David P. Dillard <jwne[_at_]astro.ocis.temple.edu>
> forwarded a message by Mel C. Siff <mcsiff[_at_]aol.com>:
> >
> > 1. the increasing trend for academic papers to have a huge list of
> > authors (to ensure that everyone in a given department accrues the
> > requisite number of accredited publications by age 30),
>
> The author's facetious attempt to illustrate this actually falls quite
> short of the reality. To process journal article citations into one of
> our databases, we had to limit the number of authors that we would index
> to 100 because we were getting records with more than 100 authors. With
> little effort, I found this record in the INSPEC database:

Some science projects require personnel equal to a Disney movie.

Why not give contributors credit? Perhaps tags that identified directors, producers, gaffers and Foley artists would help.

Albert Henderson
Editor, PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY
<70244.1532[_at_]compuserve.com> Received on Fri Feb 12 1999 - 01:51:53 GMT