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chigan faithful skulker john grenier points us towards a recent exhibition at the university of michigan library s special collections on 18c british fortifications in the americas a salon story on it is here while the online exhibit is here and no your memory isn t failing you oxford university s museum of the history of science also held its own exhibit entitled the geometry of war back in 1996 you can check out its online catalog here which deals more with instruments of war hey there s a book title in there somewhere i think speaking of memories i have fond ones of michigan s library which offered innumerable printed riches to an interloping grad student from that state down south i spent many a dime on photocopies there this was in the days when libraries still kept 18c books in the stacks rather than hide them away in rare book rooms but maybe it s for the best that ohio state s library recalled the copies of deidier s 1757 le parfait ingénieur français and lamberty s 1724 mémoires pour servir à l histoire du xviii siècle that i had on a floor bookcase for several years i m lucky my cat didn t pee on them the staff at eym the library s oclc code another tidbit you needed to know pre google books were also incredibly helpful on one of my research jaunts to the land of maize and blue they were kind enough to digitize several dozen maps from pelet s atlas companion to vault s mémoires militaries and even place them online and of course michigan has been at the forefront of hathi trust which means that i can finally throw away all those paper copies i made 15 years ago of the europische mercurius and santa cruz de marcenado s reflexions militaires so thanks to the spauldings who made much of it possible and if you plan a trip there don t forget to take a peak at the 18c spanish mortar nearby october 30 2014 in professional research leave a comment citations as window to the discipline s soul a recent blog post on poor citation practices continues the long standing pissing contest between the two cultures or is it three now maybe four as its title suggests the author thinks that the relatively small number of citations in social science and humanities publications translates into self harm for these flaccid disciplines that lack voluminous citations in previous posts i ve expressed my own dissatisfaction with how historians discuss or don t discuss historiography and i m enough off a splitter to cry out for more citation even if publishers and some readers prefer otherwise so in general i m sympathetic to blog post s overall appeal for greater citation there s also a very interesting table of how citations facilitate some of the fundamental features of scholarship halfway down the post so i don t have any particular insight into the question of comparative citation counting other than a warning and question about automating the process and to point out that the focus on journal s h5 scores are pretty pointless for historians since we re much more likely to cite books and book chapters than journal articles maybe the fact that there are so few thematic history journals plays a role the author writing from a social science perspective praises google scholar metrics for providing a very inclusive counting of citations not so much for history if my book is any indication because i m generally a vain individual i keep track of which publications cite my work so when i search google scholar metrics for my vauban under siege book i find 14 works that cite it which is great except for the fact that there are at least 25 works that i know of which explicitly cite my book almost 80 more works than what google says if i cared i d track down which ones are missing though i m guessing some of them are probably book chapters and non english works admittedly the citation count of my 2000 journal of military history article on ramillies is much more accurate 14 citations compared to the 16 that i m aware of but since history is all about the books google scholar is hardly acceptable for history at least as it stands but perhaps this is only to be expected given how historians are constantly forced to deal with the kind of messy information that google tries to engineer a solution to anyone else have better luck with google scholar for that matter do any historians actually use google scholar with any frequency i m constantly underwhelmed every time i try to find additional secondary sources using it searching google books and the web is usually a much better bet july 24 2013 in professional 10 comments to embargo or not to embargo that is the question interesting discussion going on about a recent american historical association policy calling on history departments and libraries to allow phd holders to keep their online dissertations closed to public access for up to six years instead of the now standard 1 3 years two overviews chronicle of higher ed and inside higher ed be sure to check out the comments as well there s also a q a on the aha website defending the policy with a few comments on the one hand we have the aha combined with increasingly nervous phd graduates facing a horrible academic job market their argument essentially boils down to protecting the potential future job prospects of said grads without a book i e a revised dissertation it s said phd grads won t be able to get academic jobs and acquire tenure and according to some university press editors an openly available online dissertation discourages them from offering a publishing contract they only want to publish fresh original arguments that will blow your mind the argument is pretty simple no book no tenure so make it easier to get a book contract on the other hand just about every point and assumption above is contested by critics that university presses won t publish work derived from online theses that scholars won t buy works derived from online theses that most dissertations will even get published as a monograph that history should remain focused on the published monograph in contrast with the aha s professional read job concerns critics of the new policy tend to gravitate around several related philosophical beliefs in timely open access to publicly funded research that historical knowledge is about disseminating information rather than hiding it that the profession needs to squarely face up to the reality that an increasing number of history phds won t ever get an academic teaching position even if they want one regardless of whether they publish or not hence the rise of short term jobs in the digital humanities and a general desire to drag history into the digital age which means lessening the totemic status of the monograph as the joke goes monograph noun a book written by one person and read by one person i m a bit conflict on the question so i thought i d look back at my own experience write what you know they always say my experience untangling all these arguments would require a lot of empirical evidence that we probably don t have i have no idea whether anyone will be denied a job or tenure if they don t embargo their dissertations but i can speak to how my online dissertation spread who used it and where i am now as a result my main conclusion is primarily descriptive if anybody cares and you want people to care your dissertation will get released into the wild regardless of what you do i successfully defended my dissertation in october 2002 on the anniversary of lepanto in fact fortunately i played the role of don juan of austria and made only a few minor changes to the manuscript before it was presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree doctor of philosophy in the graduate school of the ohio state university i chose to forego an embargo although i had the option of up to three years don t really know why i refused maybe i was lazy or freaking out over the impending job search or maybe there was already a glimmer of the open access proponent bubbling up inside me i wasn t particularly embarrassed with the product although i m very glad i was able to delete a chapter or two for the book and add a few new chapters the dissertation was thus immediately placed online full pdf on ohiolink for the world to download still there in fact i don t know how often the dissertation has been downloaded over the past 11 years there s a download count on the webpage but since that only says 2 which includes my download just now i m thinking it s either a new site design or it doesn t include views or something it certainly doesn t include other people sharing the pdf file and it probably doesn t include the various database services subscribed to by many research i university libraries e g electronic theses and dissertations why do i think more than two people looked at my dissertation first my ego won t allow me to consider the alternative but second because i know others have referenced the dissertation the one thing i can say for certain is that your dissertation will get out there assuming anyone is interested in the subject a simple google search of vauban s siege legacy a silly title i realize results in 411 hits don t worry i won t cite them all but here s a flavoring of the venues in which your dissertation will likely appear if it s online whether this publicity is enough to risk the chance of having your manuscript refused by a publisher is up to you at the beginning the basics of your dissertation will appear in the various online catalogs that meant in my case ohiolink and the ohio state library catalog which include the abstract so when crafting your abstract you need to balance your paranoia about getting scooped with your desire to entice those reading the abstract into checking out the whole thing or maybe you want a really boring diss abstract to keep the vultures away hopefully a milquetoast abstract won t reflect poorly on you in the pre digital days dissertations still managed to find their way to scholars who cared you could order a copy from umi or the degree granting university some foreign dissertations were passed around like so many trading cards such dissemination was largely invisible to the author unless you happened to get a royalty statement listing the number of copies sold online dissertations have brought all this out into the open your dissertation will get much more attention if it s easily available online on the mind if my example is any indication your dissertation will make its way into google books perhaps surprisingly as no preview without the ability to search the full text with an uncertain 20 year to boot it will also appear in worldcat where i discovered that my diss apparently floated over the ocean currents to the university of wollongong australia in this flat earth age your dissertation download link might be brought to the attention of chinese web surfers or your abstract even translated into vietnamese 2011 the flotsam and jetsam of academic history i guess if you wrote on a subject that has a broader historiography and if you didn t why bother your dissertation will likely come to the attention of bibliographers in my case the diss and an annotation were included in bill young s international politics and warfare bibliography published a mere two years after the dissertation was finished the timing was rather fortuitous or not if you re paranoid in this case since such bibliographies see very sporadic publication a relevant dissertation is a cited dissertation which means that your dissertation will likely get cited before you are able to see the book in print this depends in part on how long it takes to convert the diss into a monograph mine took four years october 2002 to november 2006 and the conventional wisdom suggests a shelf life of six years depending on the overall activity of your subfield s historiography but whether your dissertation gets cited before it becomes a book also depends on your dissertation committee i was fortunate to have two prolific authors on mine who are kind enough to highlight the work of their students but this also guaranteed that my diss would be cited by them before i could finish my revisions john lynn in 2004 and geoffrey parker in 2004 and 2005 in that case you hope they don t divulge all of your trade secrets but you re not normally in a position to tell them what to publish nor do you want to refuse their imprimatur on your scholarship networking with productive scholars in your field is a requirement for academic advancement yet the only thing most newly minted phds have to network with is the dissertation if you re trying to get an academic job you ll have to decide for yourself how much to lift the secret veil surrounding your conclusions here s where job hunting dovetails with concerns about plagiarism beyond the intellectual theft will your ideas be publication worthy if somebody already published them how far will you go to prevent such premature release will you present your results at a conference to your peers to those most likely to steal your ideas in this situation the paranoid person is damned if you do damned if you don t don t present and nobody will know when someone else steals your ideas present and you re letting the would be thief know the combination to your safe or perhaps you ll reason that getting some articles or book chapters into print quickly will provide a broader audience for your ideas whet their whistle for the full book and maybe even forestall any potential plagiarists after all it takes a long time to convert the average dissertation into a book so maybe you publish a few small pieces before the book or even a summary of the main findings pink rectangle publications relating to my dissertation in pink of course a lot of this is beyond your control if you chose a crowded subfield back in grad school you ll have more competition you ll need to publish more quickly in order to keep up with the historiography the pressure to plagiarize will likely be greater as will the likelihood that your ideas will be published under someone else s name now that social media are all the rage you can also expect all sorts of other sites to mention your dissertation my own ad on my website without mentioning the full version online let the cat peek out of the bag posts on your blog might also steal the future book s thunder you can also expect word of mouth to spread your online dissertation to the winds sites like goodreads mention my dissertation more and more websites simply automate the inclusion of materials that mention a term for example here the more accessible your dissertation is online the wider it will spread does that lead to greater eventual book sales to more opportunities to present your work to an inability to get it published at all who knows if your topic is something which non academics are interested in reading you can expect your dissertation to appear in all sorts of other places especially if the dis...
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