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by kalter
Sun Apr 24, 2016 3:00 pm
Forum: Substantive Dimensions of the Deliberations
Topic: Very Undesirable Unintended Consequences
Replies: 9
Views: 27362

Re: Very Undesirable Unintended Consequences

Here is a list of unintended consequences that I have discovered while publishing in law journals, that do rely on active citation: 1) the copy-editing in law journals is 75-100% about tracking and checking citations. It is easier for editors to focus on this technical side, but it comes at the cost...
by kalter
Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:52 pm
Forum: Substantive Dimensions of the Deliberations
Topic: Questionable benefits, Disproportionate costs, Narrowing of future research
Replies: 6
Views: 20612

Re: Questionable benefits, Disproportionate costs, Narrowing of future research

When I publish in law journals, which often use active citation, I do so with a law professor co-author. I will only publish in law journals with this co-author, because he has access to many assistants who do the grunt work. By grunt work, I mean that my co-author’s assistants follow our pincites, ...
by kalter
Sun Apr 24, 2016 2:45 pm
Forum: Substantive Dimensions of the Deliberations
Topic: [From Steering Comm.] What might qualitative data access look like?
Replies: 7
Views: 24125

Re: [Steering Committee] What might qualitative data access look like?

I guess that I just don't see the problem this solution remedies--although the same is true for most of the DA-RT proposal. I have no problem embedding links to publicly available sources-- that is easy to do, and I am happy to do so. It is the sources that are not publicly available that are the ch...