Sure I'd be happy to review this article. It is one of the things I do as service and the title and abstract actually look kind of interesting.
But WHY for the love of God does your goat feltching manuscript system require that I fill out my mailing address and university affiliation before I can get to the pdf!! Are you going to send me a fricking birthday card? That would be nice but I'd just be happy to get the pdf.
And of course I don't friggin' remember my username and password because all the damn systems have different requirements and its not like I use the one for your journal more than once or twice a year.
Just attached the article to the email or give me a link with an embedded username/password in it. For Christ sakes, it is just an article submission, not the crown jewels. Who the hell is going to try to access this besides the reviewers?
All these academic sites have these retarded codes because they copy the retarded codes businesses use....I would have a small leather-bound writing pad and write all these stupid codes in them, and then I would nail it to the wall so it would not get lost.
ReplyDeleteI've gone all twitchy over the fact that pretty much every University has been sold the same system to use to apply for jobs with. Every. Single. One. I realize the company that produced it made a mint, but I'm completely confused as to why we couldn't go all medschool with this thing and only fill it out once and then have that info sent to multiple schools.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'm just here to say that your graphic made me laugh until I cried, UK.
ReplyDeleteMy standard password for programs like these is (Publication Initials) Sux 1. So, for Cultural Anthropology for instance: CASux1.
ReplyDeleteEasy and spleen-y!