A community for funny, quirky, and downright bizarre excerpts from peer-reviewed academic journals and scholarly textbooks. ***This is not an NSFW community,*** nor is it a place to make fun of the authors who dedicate immense time and effort to forwarding their respective fields. We're laughing *with* them, not *at* them.
## Rules
*The rules are subject to change, especially upon community feedback.*
1. Content – Posts should be a screenshot of an excerpt from a peer-reviewed academic article or a [scholarly book](https://libguides.up.edu/scholarlysources/books) which you find funny, quirky, or bizarre in some way. This excerpt should be no larger than about one paragraph. The text should be easily legible.
- If the excerpt is a figure, it should include both the figure itself and the caption explaining what the figure represents.
2. Sourcing – The post body must provide information about the excerpt's source. This can be a URL to a webpage on the publisher's website containing this information (or a repository like JSTOR if the article's publisher has no such page); otherwise, you can provide the information yourself. Any formatting of this pseudo-citation is acceptable as long as it's comprehensible. *If not using a URL*, this information includes at minimum:
- For peer-reviewed academic articles: the title, year published, first listed author's name (or both names if there are only two authors), and the name of the journal (volume, issue, page(s), and digital identifier(s) optional).
- For scholarly books: the title, year published, first listed book author's/editor's name (or both names if there are only two authors/editors), edition (if multiple), publisher, page number, and ISBN. No Amazon links.
3. Accessibility – For accessibility purposes, any posts which are images of text must include a full transcript of the excerpt in the body of the post. [Embedded images should also have alt-text.](https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/485977)
- For figures, this should include a transcript of the caption as well as a brief description of the part(s) of the figure you think is/are noteworthy (pretend you're talking to a blind friend).
- Non-English-language excerpts are allowed, but the post body must contain both a transcript from the original language and a reasonably accurate translation into English.
4. Piracy – Links to, requests for, and advice on obtaining illegally hosted copies of the paper or book are subject to removal and a ban. If the source can be accessed online freely and legally (e.g. through ResearchGate, universities and museums, Google Books/the Internet Archive, open-access databases like PubMed Commons, etc.), you are welcome and encouraged to include a link in the post body.
5. Predatory journals – Please try to avoid [predatory publishers](https://beallslist.net/) like MDPI. This isn't a strict rule so much as something to keep an eye out for, as these sorts of publishers tank academic credibility for profit and can misinform readers with sometimes-questionable science.
6. All [Lemmy.World Terms of Service](https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/) also apply.
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