29th February 2012, 02:03 PM
Sith Wrote:True, but there are still lots of sites dug by them and under other regimes (MSC being probably the biggest offender) that have never been written up and probably never will be. At least a contract and a deadline creates an incentive to get the work done.
Think of the 7 MSC schemes I can remember working on, two weren't worth publishing in any shape or form and have quietly remained as grey literature buried in an archive somewhere, one got summarised in a local journal, THREE have appeared as glossy monographs and no idea about the other one, suspect something will have ended up in a regional journal. That's actually quite a good publication ratio compared to what goes on these days - oh and these were all for different units in different parts of the country, so not just one unit being better than another over publication