[KS] Korean Studies List Administrative Announcement

[KS List Admin]

Dear List Members,

The following is an important Administrative Announcement from  
KoreanStudies Online Discussion List owners and moderators. Please  
make sure to read it carefully and keep in mind this subscriber?s  
agreement prior to sending your request. Thank you.

koreanstudies is an international, English-language, nonpartisan,  
moderated electronic discussion group on Korea. The list welcomes  
academic discussions on any aspect of Korean Studies. It may also be  
used for posting announcements of publications, job vacancies, and so  
forth.

However, the KoreanStudies list adheres to strict academic standards  
and limits frequent participation to academics and other professionals  
in Asian studies. Presently, the list has over 1,500 subscribers, many  
of whom are established Korea specialists. Only messages with  
substantial Korean Studies content or with content that will be of  
wide interest within the discipline will be posted.

Please also note that a scholarly discussion list such as this should  
not be used as a source for people's e-mail addresses, except as a  
last resort; discussion is the primary purpose. Therefore, requests  
for bibliographical information or e-mail addresses should be sent to  
the list only after all other means of search have been exhausted.

All postings will be permanently stored online. While the  
KoreanStudies discussion list is similar to an academic seminar, open  
only to those with a serious academic commitment to Korean Studies,  
its Mailing List Archives as well as the Korean Studies Review (an  
electronic review journal of works pertaining to Korean Studies) are  
available to all. Postings from this forum may be quoted but, with the  
exception of job and conference announcements, are not to be reprinted  
in full elsewhere without the express permission of the author. In any  
case, we ask that proper credit be given to the author and to the  
KoreanStudies list, and that the date of posting be given.

The primary purpose of KoreanStudies is to enable Korea scholars to  
communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new  
articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to  
test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. Relevant  
academic job announcements, and fellowship announcements may also be  
posted. Organizers of conferences and symposia in Asian Studies are  
encouraged to post calls for papers and program contents. Similarly,  
we encourage graduate students to post abstracts of their doctoral  
dissertations. Reports on new archival or bibliographic sources, new  
software, datasets or CD-ROMs are also welcome.

We emphasize that KoreanStudies is a moderated list. Posts are to be  
solid, thoughtful, and to the point. The list moderators will screen  
all incoming messages to eliminate "spam" and other inappropriate  
commercial solicitations, private e-mail, messages that do not fit  
adequately into scholarly debate. The size of image attachments is  
limited to 2 MB per posting. Chitchat is to be kept to a minimum, as  
is disproportionate quotation of other messages.

We also discourage discussion so heated that it may be construed as  
personal, and we will not publish messages that pursue debate in an  
overly aggressive fashion or contain ad hominem attacks. Although we  
realize that this is a controversial position, we maintain it because  
we believe that a professional tone is conducive to academic  
inquiry?as well as to the comfort of the subscribers of the moderated  
list. The list moderators will not censor ideas that are presented,  
but we will do our utmost to ensure that clearly irrelevant,  
unprofessional and impolite materials do not appear on the list.

We also reserve the right to make minor editorial changes (e.g.  
spelling corrections) as needed. If the message is accepted but more  
substantial editing is required, the message will be returned to the  
author with changes for approval or with a request for rewriting.

Please note that while the list moderators' decision about messages is  
final and list moderation policy will not be discussed on the list  
itself, the moderators are happy to respond to concerns privately.

Joining the KoreanStudies list entails agreement with the principles  
outlined above.



Best Regards,

KoreanStudies List Online Discussion List Owners and Moderators