发布或灭亡

这本书序言中的一句话网络制图-交互式和移动设备的地图设计由Ian Muehlenhaus博士写的（见我的评论这里）特别抓住了我的兴趣。认识到关于Web地图的设计的教科书很少，甚至很远，Muehlenhaus博士国家：“那些确实存在的人往往是非常高级技术或编辑的卷，通常是非专家的学术。”此图像确认了我自己的观察，我在我的书中表达了序言地理信息 - 技术，应用和环境，由2011年斯普林格出版。我写道：“越来越很少那个教科书是由一个或几个作者编写的教科书......当时，当参与25名作者或更多，当涉及时，它并不罕见......所涵盖的主题是复杂和专业的。“症状是 - 为什么？为什么这么多书籍作为一系列编辑的会议论文发布？为什么这么少的教授对专业领域的现有知识有兴趣，并以适合学生和从业者的观众的形式展示它？我想我知道答案：无情起源于当前的大学奖励和职业体系。仔细看看这种情况，大学的任务是三倍：（1）创造知识;（2）知识的保护和构建;（3）整个学生，从业者和社会的知识转移。一个天真的观察者认为，这些任务具有相同的体重并且同样奖励，但没有什么可以进一步来自真相。列为1号的任务 - 创建知识 - 已经投入到远的Zenith（好的，我可能会略微夸大，但它肯定在某种程度上是真的）。 Nowadays it is no longer the actual creation of knowledge which matters, but rather its countable derivative: the number of articles published in high-ranked scientific journals or, to use the jargon, the ‘impact factor’. I recently published several articles in this magazine and I am pretty sure that some of them will become course material. But their formal impact factor will be zero – no reward and no credits because they have been published in a professional journal instead of a scientific one. And that’s not all. It is also the ability to attract funding that counts. I know of professors who have never gained a PhD, who have never published a scientific syllable, but who were appointed because of their network and thus their skills in collecting money. I know of professors who were appointed on the understanding that their education obligations would be de facto non-existent. I know of professors who are very good in knowledge transfer but whose careers have stagnated because they never gained a PhD. When will it stop? I see signs all around the world that members of academia are getting sick and tired of the whirligig of science as a paper-production industry. I see how they are suffering as the reward-and-career system is all but bankrupt. Indeed, they are longing for release from the straitjacket of ‘publish or perish’.