Any ideas?

Hi,

I have a question about the peer-review process. A few months ago, I submitted my paper. I got 'Major corrections' from two reviewers, however, Editor decided that I have to 'revise and resubmit'. I made all necessary changes recommended by reviewers and resubmitted the paper about 12 days ago. It status changed very quickly from 'Awaiting Reviewer Selection' to 'Awaiting Reviewer Scores'. But today I noticed that the status changed again and it says 'Awaiting Reviewer Agreement'. What does it mean? Does it mena that one of reviewers was unavailable/rejected my paper (but I can't see why it'd be rejected)? Or maybe Editor assigned another reviewer?

Many thanks

M.

Hi. After a long period of being mentally bullied by my supervisor I decided to stand up for myself and change my supervisory arrangement. The Head of the Research Institute supports my and today is the day when I'm going to make this huge step. I know my supervisor will get absolutely mad when he find out about that but I can't work with him any more. I hope some of you reading this post understand what I mean and will support me with a good word. As Roosevelt said: 'You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' All the best to everyone!

Hi,

In last few weeks I had a lot of problems and couldn't agree on many issues with my supervisor. We decided at some stage to rebuild our relationship but I guess it was mostly motivated by the fact that the head of our school talked to my supervisor and advised him to cool things down. Now all our conversations are recorded - my supervisor claims its for our both sakes and maybe it is true but it kind of doesn't feel we're rebuilding our relationship. Moreover he asked me to give him all my codes - I was modifying a piece of software adding (in last year) my own subroutines (codes) so we can use it for my PhD project. Now when I have good results (using this modified piece of code), I'm afraid he will use my code if I eventually decide to change my supervisory arrangements. I just want to make clear that it wasn't his processing package (unmodified version) and he didn't contribute at all to modify it. So my question is: can he use it for his research purposes or can he still my results. I know a little bit about IP rights but I'm wondering if it's him who has rights to my codes or is it university as my employer?

I'd appreciate any response

Sue