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ne 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 dissertation is free while your book costs just south of 200 that would be an interesting argument for open access dissertations nobody will read your astronomically expensive book so you might as well offer the dissertation draft for free amateur military historians i e non academics are quite capable of using the internets to find items of interest this website on military architecture includes a paragraph from my diss as well as a link to the full pdf april year unclear this wargamer message board includes a link to a wargaming review of the book 2009 here s a napoleonic website forum reference may 2013 and another in a wargamer online journal winter 2013 heck your dissertation might even get mentioned in the comments of a russian military history blog 2011 but it being the internet vultures abound as well for example this site offers to sell you an ibook copy of my diss for less than 3 euros published may 2013 what a bargain i won t mention that you can also download a pirated copy of the published book for that matter more seriously you may very well find your online dissertation work plagiarized or perhaps copied without proper attribution is a more generous phrase that happened with my dissertation in a french book on vauban that shall go unnamed at least with my dissertation online and cited in the bibliography in question it s easy for any curious reader to pull up the dissertation and see how closely the french text follows my own formulation even quoting exactly the same examples that i did but it doesn t help that the very concept of plagiarism is itself nebulous not only is its definition unclear here in the us witness the aha s hesitancy to engage the issue but it is even less clear once we look at graduate student research assistants not to mention standard practices in other disciplines and the academic cultures of other countries if you consider overseas markets critical to your work probably better to err on the side of paranoia if you can in short if you can call 2000 words short the availability of my dissertation online hasn t killed my career such that it is but there are plenty of possible rebuttals beyond the impossibility of dis proving counterfactuals i had a book contract soon after graduation i was also somewhat protected against plagiarism in that my book was published around the same time as the french plagiarism came out and a summary of my work was soon thereafter published in french and to be honest my career path may be less than ideal for those young aspiring phds still hoping to get a job with a 1 0 teaching load i ve yet to be interviewed as an up and coming young historian after all my impressionistic takeaway on this whole debate whether a dissertation is embargoed or not probably has little impact on whether most history phds get a tenure track job and whether most receive tenure but i m left with many larger questions about the state of the profession and publishing and how they relate to jobs to what extent does the current mandatory online publishing of dissertations explain the tough job market for history phds over the past five years have recent graduates published their works at lower rates than in the pre digital age how many tenure track history jobs are there overall compared to the number of applicants compared to the number of history phd graduates each year this policy s intended target how many of those jobs are at research universities that require a prestigious university press monograph how many history faculty are denied tenure for failing to publish a book how much difficulty did those denied tenure have because their dissertation was already online is publishing a book enough for tenure at a research school or do you need glowing reviews as well which means you really don t have six years anyway if you need six years to complete your book does that mean you re not competitive for a position that requires a book for tenure in the first place what is the relative harm when every new phd has the same 1 3 year embargo are publishers simply not publishing young phds without a longer embargo and are schools refusing to hire new phds as a result how many dissertations as a percentage and in absolute numbers will actually get published by academic presses these days compared to previous decades to what extent should the aha base its policies on what the history publishing industry says it wants who is this policy really for the aha history departments history publishers or all those history phds madly scrambling for jobs and adjuncting in the meantime too many big questions for me to answer the aha s policy may assuage the field s collective conscience might protect the publishing prospects of a few phds and could serve as a sop to history phd students livid at their field for preparing them to graduate into un or under employment but it doesn t address the real crises in academic history 1 helping the average history phd land a tenure track position and 2 making history more relevant to the broader public to me the debate is about a first world problem in a world increasingly made up of third worlders april 18 2013 in bibliography professional research 3 comments google books crackdown is it just me or has google books been taking down a lot of its pre 1923 works over the past year or so works that i ve easily accessed before in full view and fortunately downloaded are now no preview and many particularly 18c english works now only seem to link to those parasitical companies that republish and sell google book scans on amazon or maybe they even have a contract with google admittedly google books metadata is still crap and its search results can be eclectic but it seems there are far fewer useful hits than in the past anyone else notice this maybe i m just losing my google fu if this is a real trend is this monetization in action the impact of google s agreements with publishers have people been talking about this already in either case i once again offer this public service announcement always save online resources to your own drive you never know when they ll be disappeared april 8 2013 in resources leave a comment early european books free trial courtesy of early modern online bibliography there s a free trial of eeb through 22 april this collection consists of pre 1700 books from firenze florence for us anglos frahnce france for us anglos denmark always gotta remind students that the dutch are from the netherlands not denmark and that the pennsylvania dutch are german the kb in the netherlands not the danes and the wellcome library in london a medical library not sure how much military history there is in them thar collections but check it out while you can january 26 2013 in research 1 comment never a good sign for those who need a reminder of the fragility of our knowledge of the past i present the following from the bodleian oxford update on sprinkler incident at book storage facility by this point your heart should already have leapt into your throat on saturday 12 january at the bodleian s book storage facility bsf a sprinkler was activated causing water damage to a number of books this incident is highly unusual and is the first time this has occurred since the bsf opened in september 2010 bodleian libraries staff responded to the matter immediately and are working with the university s estates services to investigate the problem at the moment it is not yet known what caused the sprinkler to go off but there is no evidence of a fire in total 5 724 books from a wide variety of collection areas were affected the wet materials have been dispatched for freezing and drying the recommended treatment for such incidents we anticipate that all books will return to their collections but are not able to make a final assessment until the restoration process has been completed solo has been updated to note those items that are temporarily unavailable library staff and the just in time team are on alert to locate an alternative copy if possible from other sources should a reader have an urgent need to consult a title which is temporarily inaccessible during conservation treatment the bsf reopened on monday 14 january and had returned to normal operations by the afternoon of tuesday 15 january we thank you for their patience as we respond to this incident my wife and i toured the 15c duke humfrey s library last year where the docent proudly informed us of the spanking new facilities that would protect the bodleian s books instead of relying solely on the heavy iron chains attached to the spines of the books ah technology hopefully none of the books suffered significant damage plus you gotta love any library that defines a number of books as 5 724 let this serve as a reminder to libraries and archives everywhere to spend more money scanning all those old works and making them freely available online isn t there some billionaire somewhere who has a few hundred million dollars to spend on such a laudable goal oxford it should be noted has been doing its part witness their broadside ballads online database and their partnership with google books now if we could just get the british library to allow photography december 14 2012 in bibliography leave a comment interesting meta library stats dan cohen has a real interesting post on some data crunching from the hathitrust project it includes a number of graphs by john wilkins that illustrate the uniqueness of various research libraries holdings cool stuff although some caveats are to be found in the comments aren t they always dan also mentions librarything a site where you can enter in your own libraries and share compare with others the site is mostly used for modern book aficionados but it does include a legacylibraries section where people have entered in historical figures libraries here s an example of james boswell might be something to play around with at some point we could really use one dedicated to the early modern period building off of ira gruber s recent books and the british army in the age of the american revolution preferably with all of lynn s guide titles already entered in or easily importable group libraries in zotero might be another option zotero has a few plugins that allow some library visualizations a timeline feature as well as a plugin called paper machines which i ve never been able to get to work properly fwiw so much to do so little time june 15 2012 in methodology research 23 comments paleography and mystery words if you ve ever had the pleasure of skulking in archival holes and corners you ve no doubt encountered the joy and despair associated with paleography when i was a kid i wanted to be a paleontologist little did i know that my future would take me in the slightly different direction of paleography perhaps not as exciting as chasing after a t rex but almost as dusty being a paleographer means excavating knowledge from handwritten documents slightly younger than fossils an american history grad student s first introduction to paleography can be fear inducing about to set off on his great european archival adventure a new professor suddenly introduces him to the concept of difficult handwriting in a class he was auditing the level of panic only increased when a fellow grad student already across the pond confirmed the challenge warning that he had spent several weeks in the archives deciphering the handwriting literally l e t t e r by l e t t e r for day after day over the years i ve researched in numerous archives and therefore gotten pretty good at deciphering the paleography written by french and english hands c 1700 enough to impress 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