[SystemSafety] Fwd: Re: New book

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 4/15/13 3:22 PM, SPRIGGS, John J wrote:
> Self-publish next time?

Given my experience, I can't say I would recommend it. (Not that my book was technically 
self-published - the Impressum, namely legal responsibility for content, a requirement of German 
law, lies with my group RVS at the Uni Bielefeld.)

Colleagues and organisations do not recognise book-length content on merit. They want not only an 
ISBN but a recognised publisher. That is, for example, close to what the "rules" say concerning 
putting manuscripts in bibliographies on any grant applications in Germany (they add: a signed 
contract). (A young colleague preparing a grant application in 2011 for a consortium in which I was 
involved claimed he could find "nothing I had published" in 2007-2011. There was of course a 
subtext, but in many organisations there is some such subtext or other.)

As made clear by Nancy's and John's prices, it is possible to negotiate accessibility with some 
publishers.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, 33594 Bielefeld, Germany
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de