Around the "name" of book monographs, a gray interest chain has been formed, from content ghostwriting, nominal editor-in-chief to purchasing and selling.
Phenomenon hundreds of online stores publicly sell "editing positions", the most expensive is 26,000, and the cheapest is 5,500 yuan.
New Year's Day welfare delivery, really special price is not routine, monograph (monograph) editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, editorial board. "A self-proclaimed' Korean editor' promoted this in a circle of friends that changed every day, and attached the names of several books to be published, with the suffixes of' Editor No.2' and' Editor No.3'. Similar to the promotion advertisement of WeChat business on social networks, "Han Editor" also specially matched a picture of a literary model with a line of chicken soup-style text: "Every book has a story. "
After entering the keyword "nominal monograph" on a treasure platform, the search found that more than 100 merchants with the words "nominal publication of monographs, regular publishing houses" and "nominal publication of monographs and teaching materials" soon appeared on the page. Roughly speaking, the books and titles published by these businesses involve dozens of disciplines such as medical treatment, education, tourism, foreign literature and economics. Some of these businesses clearly stated in their web advertisements that "many authors need to publish books when evaluating their professional titles, but they don't have time to write books themselves. At this time, you can find us, and we will find you a corresponding professional book to be the editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief or editorial board member of the book, and you can also achieve the purpose of evaluating professional titles. "
So many people are keen to read the crooked classics of "nominal editor-in-chief". On the one hand, it reflects the chaos in the current publishing industry; On the other hand, the current professional title evaluation system in China's colleges and universities also presents an embarrassing situation. "Monographs or textbooks are in the front, and second-and third-rate colleges and universities are the hardest hit areas. Many people took advantage of the loophole and took advantage of it tacitly. " A professor at a famous college of arts and sciences in Beijing said frankly. After browsing the "name" books, the professor analyzed that the books that are often used as "names" are mostly emerging disciplines, such as tourism, art, foreign literature, sports, ideology and politics, library and information science, computers, management and so on. "The root cause is that second-and third-rate colleges have not established a sound academic evaluation mechanism. The traditional discipline of literature, history and philosophy in a good university will not be measured by works or papers alone. The key is academic quality and accumulation, and peers have their own comments. "
In addition to the imperfect academic evaluation mechanism, many interviewed teachers said that some colleges and universities still listed being the editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief of monographs or textbooks as the conditions for professional title evaluation. It is understood that at present, the teaching posts in most colleges and universities in China are mainly divided into three categories: teaching and research post teachers, full-time teaching post teachers and full-time research post teachers. However, in the appointment of teachers, the importance of assessment standards and scientific research in each position is self-evident, and the publication of high-level papers, monographs, national scientific research projects, provincial and ministerial awards and so on are the main assessment indicators. The constantly upgraded version of the judges is dazzling.