What are the benefits of being a subject specialist? - Public Service—Specialists provide an invaluable academic and community service by guiding the public to the seminal sources of information about their subjects of expertise. This reference service rectifies the "Age of Mis-Information" propogated by the Internet's unverified and often invalid resources. The mission of Fields of Knowledge and its subject specialists is to better enable librarians, students, and others to identify good information for learning. Contributing citations to The Infography complies with academia's expectation that professors publish their knowledge, extend it beyond campus boundaries, and stay abreast of the literature.
- Informative Feedback—Subject specialists receive, through the office of Fields of Knowledge, suggestions from other scholars regarding new or overlooked sources of information in the specialists' disciplines.
- Free Copies of New Publications—Publishers are eager to have their books and other information products cited in The Infography and are providing Fields of Knowledge with review copies, which are forwarded to the appropriate subject specialists.
- Prestige and Anonymity—Affiliation with Fields of Knowledge is a working addition to one's curriculum vitae, and subject specialists may choose to proclaim and publicize this affiliation to profess expertise. Fields of Knowledge, however, will not reveal the identity of its subject specialists to the public and will not enable any third parties to contact them directly.
- Conferences—Fields of Knowledge hopes to host issue-specific conferences, where a select group of subject specialists will issue recommendations regarding exigent issues in human progress.
- Royalty Payments—Fields of Knowledge will pay 10% of gross (rather than net) revenues from commercial sponsors of The Infography to its subject specialists.
- Founding Specialists Bonus—The Founding Specialists Bonus Program provides a future bonus of $1,000 to the first 5,000 subject specialists, contingent upon the success of this project.
What will be the dollar amount of the royalty payments?
Royalty payments are based upon revenues: 10% of gross revenues divided among subject specialists, paid quarterly when the royalty due exceeds $50.00. The Infography project has not yet generated sufficient revenues to pay any royalties to date, but we aim to! Details about the royalty payments are specified in the Terms of Publication.
What is the Founding Specialists Bonus Program?
The Fields of Knowledge Founding Specialists Bonus Program conditionally pledges a future bonus of $1,000 to each of the first 5,000 subject specialists. This one-time bonus will be paid if and when aggregate sales income for The Infography totals $50,000,000, so it may be a few years before the bonus is distributed, and it may never be distributed if the project fails. Because the earliest specialists to participate will receive lean royalty payments while the product and sales revenue develop, we plan to award this bonus to our earliest collaborators if and when revenues give cause for celebration.
What are the terms of publication governing the relationship between the specialist as author and Fields of Knowledge as publisher?
After a content submission is accepted for publication, Fields of Knowledge will ask the author to acknowledge and agree to the following: TERMS OF PUBLICATION - PUBLISHER agrees not to publish or otherwise disclose the name, email addresses, mailing addresses, or telephone numbers of AUTHOR to any third parties without AUTHOR's permission.
- AUTHOR has written a list or lists of reference citations (herein "COMPOSITION"), and AUTHOR grants permission to PUBLISHER to edit and publish the COMPOSITION(s) and to license publication to a third party.
- AUTHOR retains the right to otherwise and again publish, distribute, or sell the COMPOSITION(s) without attribution or payment to PUBLISHER, with or without permission from PUBLISHER.
- PUBLISHER will pay royalties to AUTHOR every three months (with exception of Paragraph 5 below). The amount of royalty payable to AUTHOR will be calculated as follows (all calculations apply to the previous three months): ten percent of PUBLISHER's gross sales revenue, divided by the total number of all authors' compositions, multiplied by the number of COMPOSITION(s) written by this AUTHOR. Said gross sales revenue will include any form of product sales revenue (from publication, licensing, advertising or sponsorship, or other undefined product sales revenue) collected by PUBLISHER from any publication that contains AUTHOR's COMPOSITION(s). Sales discounts and sales commissions shall not be included in the calculation of royalties. As a plain example of royalty calculations, ten percent of the gross income from "The Infography" will be divided by the number of subject entries in "The Infography" and paid to the authors of those subject entries.
- Royalty payments described in Paragraph 4 above shall not be paid to AUTHOR until the amount due is $50.00 or more. If the amount due for any three-month period is less than $50.00, the amount due shall be held by PUBLISHER and added to the amount due for the next three-month period, until the amount due is greater than $50.00.
- AUTHOR is one of the first five thousand subject specialists whose compositions have been published by PUBLISHER, and, as such, AUTHOR is entitled to the special bonus royalty of $1,000 for "Founding Specialists," subject to the conditions of this paragraph. This bonus royalty payment will be distributed to AUTHOR only if and when aggregate product sales revenue (as defined in Paragraph 4 above) received by PUBLISHER reaches $50,000,000 total.
- Internal Revenue Service Form 1099-MISC reports about royalty payments will be transmitted by PUBLISHER to the Internal Revenue Service and to AUTHOR, as required by law. PUBLISHER also is required by law to report the AUTHOR's social security number on Form 1099-MISC. PUBLISHER agrees not to reveal AUTHOR's social security number to any party or individual other than the Internal Revenue Service.
- AUTHOR guarantees to PUBLISHER that AUTHOR is the sole and original author of the COMPOSITION(s) and that no other individual or party holds a copyright to the COMPOSITION(s). If a third party does hold copyright to the COMPOSITION(s), AUTHOR shall be liable for any and all damages, including legal fees, for infringement of said copyright.
- Either party, AUTHOR or PUBLISHER, may withdraw from and terminate this Agreement at any time, with or without consent of the other party. After termination of this agreement, PUBLISHER shall cease to pay royalties to AUTHOR, and PUBLISHER shall cease publication or make reasonable attempts to cease publication of the COMPOSITION(s) written by AUTHOR.
How can Fields of Knowledge offer The Infography free of charge, and how does the company generate revenue?
In order for The Infography project to be successful, Fields of Knowledge had to abandon its initial intentions to be a non-profit and non-commercial web site. Revenue is generated by commercial sponsorship, and sponsors are very eager to be able to target their primary audiences through subject-specific logo placement. The commercial revenue enables subject specialists to receive deserved royalties; enables our employees to be paid; sustains the development of the project; and, most importantly, enables learners, librarians, and teachers to access The Infography for free! Fields of Knowledge is absolutely committed to maintaining free and open access to the content of The Infography; no user will be asked to register his or her identity or to pay before accessing The Infography. GUIDELINES FOR SUBJECT SPECIALISTS
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Annotations Audience Available Subjects Benefits Citation Style Colleges Represented Common Mistakes Content & Criteria Contract Deadline Founding Specialists Introduction Keywords Languages Multiple Submissions Other Excellent Sources Other Excellent Sources—Subdivisions Order of Citations Revenue Royalty Payments Sample Citations Search The Infography in a New Window Self-Citation Six Superlative Sources Subject Heading Submission Form in a New Window Submission Checklist Terms of Publication Updating Citations
Annotations Audience Available Subjects Benefits Citation Style Colleges Represented Common Mistakes Content & Criteria Contract Deadline Founding Specialists Introduction Keywords Languages Multiple Submissions Other Excellent Sources Other Excellent Sources—Subdivisions Order of Citations Revenue Royalty Payments Sample Citations Search The Infography in a New Window Self-Citation Six Superlative Sources Subject Heading Submission Form in a New Window Submission Checklist Terms of Publication Updating Citations |
