In Ferbruary I went to a conference in Vienna, where I presented a poster. The proceedings I wrote got accepted and will be published in NIM A, a high reputation journal published by Elsevier. Today I got a mail where I had to sign a copyright transferal. The copyright on the article, all included figures etc. has to be given to Elsevier. They can now do whatever they please with it. This is just the normal procedure how science publishing works: scientists (and people like me) write articles, where they do not get any money. The articles are then peer reviewed by other scientist, who also don't get any money. Then the article gets published, the original writer looses all copyright and the publisher sells the journal for some thousand Euro per edition. So far I did not really worry more than normal...
They did however address me as Dr., which is still wrong (and will be for some time...). So I sent them a mail:
Dear Sirs,
my contact details are not completely correct, I am not yet a Dr.
Can you please remove the title?
Tonight I got an aswer:
Dear Dr....
Should I trust publishers who cannot read mails?
1 comment:
Dear Dr. ....
by the time your article gets published, you will have an PhD!
With best regards,
Dr....
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