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  • 6 - Playing the Evaluation Game

  • Emanuel Kulczycki, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
  • Book:
    The Evaluation Game
    Published online:
    21 April 2023
    Print publication:
    27 April 2023, pp 157-181

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 deals with the main areas in which the evaluation game transforms scholarly communication practices. Thus, it focuses on the obsession with metrics as a quantification of every aspect of academic labor; so-called questionable academia, that is the massive expansion of questionable publishers, journals, and conferences; following the metrics deployed by institutions, and changes in publication patterns in terms of publication types, the local or global orientation of research, its contents, and the dominant languages of publications. Finally, the chapter underlines the importance of taking a geopolitically sensitive approach to evaluation games that is able to account for differences in the ways in which the game is played in central versus peripheral countries, as well as in the ways in which such practices are valorized, depending on the location of a given science system. Such differences are not only the result of differential access to resources and shifting power relations but also, as argued in the book, of the historical heritage of capitalist or socialist models in specific countries and institutions.

  • 14 - The humanist book

  • from I - BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS
  • Edited by Lotte Hellinga, J. B. Trapp
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    09 December 1999, pp 283-315

  • Summary

    The activities typical of the humanist were the editing and exposition of Latin and Greek texts, and the translation of Greek into Latin, with the aim of recovering and reviving ancient knowledge and ancient eloquence. This chapter deals with humanist books including their copying, printing and importation, and the book-sellers, book-buyers and the publication patterns of humanist books. The first Latin classic to be printed in Britain was a brief student text: Cicero, Pro Milone, which came, about 1483. Classical and humanist texts owned and used in England came in from Italy, Germany, France and the Low Countries. The chapter also talks about the British, Scottish, Italian and French humanists, Erasmus and Christian humanists including John Colet, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Linacre, and the humanist books at the Oxford and Cambridge libraries, and at the Corpus Christi College. The Duke of Gloucester, Humfrey patronized humanist books in Britain. His manuscripts later served as exemplars for copyists in England.