Re: Publishing quote

From: Tim Brody <tdb198_at_ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:34:59 +0000

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Lynn C. Hattendorf Westney wrote:

> Thought I would share these words of wisdom with this listserv.
>
> You can publish the Journal of Left Earlobe Anatomy, and you can say it's
> free to the world, but if very few people come and look at it...then it
> doesn't make any difference.
> Robert D. Bovenschulte,
> ACS Publications, Division Director

But if those very few people are the only researchers of Left Earlobe
Anatomy then it makes all the difference in the world.

Are you improving research (and hence science) or improving your impact?

Tim Brody
Computer Science, University of Southampton
email: tdb198_at_soton.ac.uk
Web: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tdb198/
Received on Mon Jan 24 2000 - 19:17:43 GMT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Dec 10 2010 - 19:45:57 GMT