RE: [Ogf-l] OGC designations

[Matthew Hodgson]

When writing papers, whether for a psychology journal or a thesis, I often find author A (in book A) quoting another author B’s (in book B) work. If I want to include author B’s material, I can’t use author A/book A as the reference. I have to go to author B/book B, read it up, and then include that in the reference section.   I would assume that the OGC material for section 15 probably needs to work in the same way. If you really want to publish something with the OGL, then its probably best you do the homework and find out who really did it in the first place.   Yes, it might mean your reference list/OGC list is very long, but at least people will know who wrote the OGC material in the first place.   Yes, someone else may have come up with the same idea and published it in another book, but so long as you’re using referencing properly, then I doubt whether there’d be any confusion as to where you got it in the first place.   Perhaps what is really needed is some proper guidelines on how to reference OGC material in OGL publications, similar to those they have for scientific publications. I am sure anyone who went to University remembers how to correctly reference their material?   MJ