early journals

[Edward Schreiber]

Not a bad idea.

On Mar 19, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:

> So Here's my plan. My mission is to promote the dissemination of  
> information in the field---aka "scholarship"-- which in turn has a  
> number of sub-tasks:
>       1. Encouraging writing up papers. Many people are giving  
> workshops. Many students are taking notes.
>
> In our era of financial "tight-ness," I wonder if there are not  
> students who might barter for training. I wonder about
>     a. amanuensis services: For notes to be written up well enough  
> to be published on a website, x hours of training.
>             That way the director doesn't have to write it up. We  
> have many excellent trainers and practitioners who are leading  
> workshops that have significant anecdotes, technique modifications,  
> theoretical rationales, and elucidation of underlying issues. These  
> can be presented either apart from any descriptions of protagonists  
> or their dramas (for confidentiality); or by significantly  
> disguising the protagonists by changing gender, age, occupation and  
> possibly by conflating stories from two or more different clients  
> or protagonists. Clinicians do this fairly often, thus protecting  
> confidentiality.
>
>       2. Encouraging translating papers from other languages into  
> English
>                    or from English into other languages. Again,  
> this equals certain amount of training.
>
> (In the past, I hesitated to suggest this as trainers really needed  
> the money, not the services. However, in the current situation,  
> possibly the choice is between not coming to a workshop or training  
> at all versus coming but paying by barter.)
>
> 3. Scanning on articles either with .pdf   full article scan-on; or  
> with optical recognition into text. But digitizing articles or  
> chapters. Then posting --- especially regarding stuff that's past  
> copyright--- over 40 years old, or ASGPP journal articles, etc.
>             This again takes time, some skill, someone to do it:  
> Might students do this if they received training in barter?
>    What do you think?
>
> Warmly, Adam