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[hitoshi]

Does the UK have anything like The Chonicle of Higher Education?

[mingus]

Does the UK have anything like The Chonicle of Higher Education?

The Times Higher-Education Supplement if the closest:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/

[hitoshi]

Thanks for that link. The web site doesn't appear to have a dialogue forum like this. Do you know of anything in the UK where academic colleagues chat like this?

[snowbound]

Yes.  This one.  ALthough these fora are weighted toward the US, quite a few regular posters here are located in the UK.

[scotia]

Yes.  This one.  ALthough these fora are weighted toward the US, quite a few regular posters here are located in the UK.

+1. I think there have been some abortive attempts to set up a forum, but I am not aware of anything that has succeeded.

[qrypt]

Yes.  This one.  ALthough these fora are weighted toward the US, quite a few regular posters here are located in the UK.

+1. I think there have been some abortive attempts to set up a forum, but I am not aware of anything that has succeeded.

It would be nice if there were something that got more of us, though -- there can't be more than a dozen regulars here. 

[oddlyodd]

Great idea, but I think that because the UK academic community is much smaller than in the US, anonymity would be hard to maintain on a UK-specific forum.

[drspouse]

I tried to set something up (and, even though there are so few people on here, and ditto there, was never aware of the identity of anyone who I had not invited personally there, and ditto here - one regular here has now introduced huself to me but beyond that it has been anonymous).

If you want to take a look, it is here, but it's rather quiet, to put it mildly

http://academicsuk.myfreeforum.org/index.php

[hitoshi]

When publishing an article in a UK academic journal is there usually a copyright/publishing agreement? After the article is accepted, at what point should one expect something of this sort?

[drspouse]

What's a "UK academic journal"? Do you mean "British Journal of X"? Or do you mean a journal put out by CUP, OUP etc.? Because the latter are rarely published in the UK...

[seniorscholar]

Further to drspouse's question, I have recently published in a CUP journal published in the US (although, by the quality of the proofs I received, evidently copy-edited in Outer Darkness); the acceptance came with a US copyright agreement to sign and fax back to a fax number that turned out not to exist. (Note: I'm blaming the US assistant to the assistant editor, not CUP, for these difficulties.)

The last article I published in a UK journal (academic journal edited and published at a UK university) did not provide any copyright agreement.

And frankly, for work in an academic journal, what difference does it make? So far as I know, there's not any payment to the author in any case (at least in my field), and probably no money to be made by anyone else illegally printing the article in some other form. (In the US, by the way, one has de facto copyright as soon as the paper has left your own typewriter or printer; registration is merely a demonstration to provide a record for recovering monetary damages if someone else does steal the material.)

[mingus]

When publishing an article in a UK academic journal is there usually a copyright/publishing agreement? After the article is accepted, at what point should one expect something of this sort?

When publishing in aany journal is there usually a copyright/publishing agreement?

[bwwm1]

When publishing an article in a UK academic journal is there usually a copyright/publishing agreement? After the article is accepted, at what point should one expect something of this sort?

In the UK journals I've published in, some have had such agreements, and one or two not. If they do, they usually send you something when the article is turned over from the journal's editors to the publisher. You hear from someone you've had no contact with before, who gives you a timeline for proofs, and asks you to sign a form. I'm sure it varies widely, but my most recent experience is with OUP, and they did ask for a copyright declaration.

[scotia]

I am pretty sure that in the past I have had to sign forms to assign copyright to the journal before publication. This has been with a range of UK/European publishers (none of them CUP). The form has arrived with the final proofs.