The Academic Standard welcomes unsolicited manuscripts. We particularly welcome solicited manuscripts.
We read reports, essays, letters, corrections of a sufficiently prestigious kind, and other documents that can survive a straight face. We do not read abstracts that describe a paper the author still intends to write.
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Publication is not a form of affiliation. Affiliation is not a form of payment. Payment, where it occurs, will be described in language no committee would approve without amendment.