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'''Newsletter No 8 - 17 June 2017''' | |||
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'''Dear Author,''' | |||
I am writing to ask you to reserve the | |||
dates for helping with the index and | |||
proofs. The following timetable has | |||
been agreed with the publisher: | |||
'''Index due to us:''' 14 July 2017<br> | |||
'''Index comments due back:''' 28 July 2017<br> | |||
'''Page proofs (to authors) for review:''' 25 August 2017<br> | |||
'''Proof corrections (mistakes only) due:''' 15 September 2017<br> | |||
'''Revised proofs for final review (editors only):''' 26 October 2017<br> | |||
'''Final comments due (editors only):''' 13 November 2017 (four days longer) | |||
'''Project Update:''' | |||
* Our Digital Humanities intern, Yuan Gao, has started work on updating the website database. To date, she has added most entries to the website and will continue working on images and correction over the summer. | |||
* We have created partnership with the UCL European Institute in order to improve the European entries, especially Spain and Portugal. Dr. Costanza Curro would be working on this. | |||
* We have received a few possible entries from Canada and Malaysia, so we hope to add two more countries to the map. | |||
*We look forward to the FRINGE annual workshop in on illegal Housing across the Globe on 22-23 June 2015. For details see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/fringe-centre/events. | |||
* We look forward to being touch soon about keywords to be added to the index. Please start thinking about it. | |||
Thank you very much and more soon, | |||
Alena Ledeneva | |||
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'''Newsletter No 7 - 28 April 2017''' | |||
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'''Dear Authors''' | |||
'''A quick update:''' As some of you know, we have been struggling with the technical side of | |||
the manuscript: illustrations, captions, copyright, tables and diagrams had to be submitted | |||
as separate files and in the right format, and listed throughout. Costanza has done her best | |||
on this and now the manuscript is back with the publishers. Unfortunate as it is, because of | |||
the publishers’ rules, we have had to cut out many pictures and graphs. We are very grateful | |||
to those of you who provided images and copyright for their use, and we will make sure that | |||
they duly appear on our website.<br> | |||
We will let you know once we have a clearer time-line for copy-editing. | |||
'''Important:''' Our unique Encyclopaedia has some 250 authors, so it would not be practical to | |||
send out contracts individually. What we have agreed with our editor at the UCL Press, Chris | |||
Penfold, is that we will send a standard contract to all authors (attached to this Newsletter) | |||
for your records. The contract states your agreement to be published by UCL Press. Given | |||
that your consent to publish had been recorded in our email correspondence, you will need | |||
to contact Chris Penfold only if you have any objections to the terms and conditions | |||
stipulated in the contract. If this is the case, please contact Chris at c.penfold@ucl.ac.uk | |||
before 8 May 2017. If we do not hear from you, we will presume that your signature is | |||
received. | |||
'''For citation:''' We will let you have the publication date as soon as we know it but, given the | |||
scale of the project, it is probably unrealistic to expect publication before January 2018. In | |||
the meantime, you can refer to your piece as Author, Name of entry, in Ledeneva, A. et al., | |||
eds. The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality. UCL Press, forthcoming. You can look up | |||
further details in the UCL Press Spring catalogue at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press. | |||
'''Online version:''' We are delighted to announce that we have a new intern, Yuan Guo from | |||
the UCL Digital Humanities Department, who will be up-dating and improving our website | |||
www.in-formality.com. It would be useful to have your suggestions as to how we make the | |||
website useful for teaching. If you have specific keywords for your entry that you would like | |||
to include in the search system online (and in the index of the printed version), please email | |||
them to us without text and mark your email with KEYWORDS in the subject line. We look | |||
forward to continuing to work with you on making the dataset searchable and easy to use. | |||
'''World Map of Informality:''' To date, we have all five continents, 66 countries and over 200 | |||
entries! We aim to increase the number of countries in the online version and would be | |||
grateful for your help. Do spread the word! | |||
'''Dissemination:''' The poster on the Global Informality Project was presented at the 2017 | |||
OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum on 30 March 2017 in Paris. We have | |||
partnered with the UCL European Institute to expand our coverage of European countries, | |||
such as Spain and Portugal, from which we at present have no entries. We have also | |||
reached out to Canadian scholars, aiming to commission entries in other countries for which | |||
we currently do not have entries. | |||
'''The FRINGE connection:''' Please look up the latest FRINGE Newsletter - left hand side menu | |||
at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/fringe-centre | |||
'''Alena Ledeneva'''<br> | |||
Professor of Politics and Society, University College London | |||
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