I am a soon-to-graduate PhD student.  Recently, I received an e-mail from an academic society, which was a call for research chapters. I have quoted the contents of the e-mail below, stripping out the unimportant details:     We are editing a new volume titled {THE TITLE}   for Springer International Series in {THE FIELD OF RESEARCH}.   We are inviting high quality research chapters   that would open new research stream in {THE SUBFIELD OF RESEARCH}.   Interested scholars are requested to send us   their chapter proposals in the form of an abstract (500-1000 words) by {THE DATE}.   Questions:   How does publishing a research chapter in a book advance my academic career compared to publishing a journal article? Does submitting work to a journal article preclude submitting the same work as a research chapter in a book?
I have been invited to write a book chapter in an edited volume, relating to my field of work. I have a paper ready that I have not published and was planning to submit it soon. So, I am wondering is it worth to use that article for the book chapter, as both are on the same topic, or is it in a sense a waste of a journal paper, as book chapters might not be seen to have the same academic value? What should I do? Should I, instead, send the ready paper to a journal for a review and write a book chapter, based on a couple papers I have published, for instance?  Generally speaking, where does a book chapter stand? Is it something between a conference paper and a full-fledged journal article? Or, does does it have the same value as either of the above-mentioned publication types, in your opinion?
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There are some serious  however:   You are not only authenticating a domain account, but you are also doing an implicit authorization check. That is, you are reading properties from the AD using an impersonation token. What if the otherwise valid account has no rights to read from the AD? By default all users have read access, but domain policies can be set to disable access permissions for restricted accounts (and or groups). Binding against the AD has a serious overhead, the AD schema cache has to be loaded at the client (ADSI cache in the ADSI provider used by DirectoryServices). This is both network, and AD server, resource consuming - and is too expensive for a simple operation like authenticating a user account. You're relying on an exception failure for a non-exceptional case, and assuming that means invalid username and password. Other problems (e.g. network failure, AD connectivity failure, memory allocation error, etc) are then mis-intrepreted as authentication failure.   Method 2. LogonUser Win32 API   have suggested using the  API function. This sounds nice, but unfortunately the calling user sometimes needs a permission usually only given to the operating system itself:     The process calling LogonUser requires   the SE_TCB_NAME privilege. If the   calling process does not have this   privilege, LogonUser fails and   GetLastError returns   ERROR_PRIVILEGE_NOT_HELD.       In some   cases, the process that calls   LogonUser must also have the   SE_CHANGE_NOTIFY_NAME privilege   enabled; otherwise, LogonUser fails   and GetLastError returns   ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED. This privilege is   not required for the local system   account or accounts that are members   of the administrators group. By   default, SE_CHANGE_NOTIFY_NAME is   enabled for all users, but some   administrators may disable it for   everyone.   Handing out the "Act as a part of the operating system" privilege is not something you want to do willy-nilly - as Microsoft points out in a :     ...the process that is calling   LogonUser must have the SE_TCB_NAME   privilege (in User Manager, this is   the "Act as part of the Operating   System" right). The SE_TCB_NAME   privilege is very powerful and   should not be granted to any arbitrary user just so that they can   run an application that needs to   validate credentials.   Additionally, a call to LogonUser() will fail if a blank password is specified.    What is the proper way to authenticate a set of domain credentials?    I happen to be calling from managed code, but this is a a general Windows question. It can be assumed that the customers have the .NET Framework 2.0 installed. 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Related:  (not a dupe, that's a feature request and was closed as a dupe of another one)        (old) post does indeed say that Link-only answers can be flagged as NAA, but there are a lot of posts like  which define Not An Answer is a way that it doesn't apply to link-only answers.  Can we get some up-to-date consensus on this? That link only answers are not allowed is . If $Y$ is connected, why is $A\cup Y$ connected in this case?