The Center for Studies in Higher Education, with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is conducting research to understand the needs and desires of faculty for inprogress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication employed as research is being executed) as well as archival publication. In the interest of developing a deeper understanding of how and why scholars do what they do to advance their fields, as well as their careers, our approach focuses in fine-grained analyses of faculty values and behaviors throughout the scholarly communication lifecycle, including sharing, collaborating, publishing, and engaging with the public. Well into our second year, we have posted a draft interim report describing some of our early results and impressions ased on the responses of more than 150 interviewees in the fields of astrophysics, archaeology, biology, economics, history, music, and political science.
Our work to date has confirmed the important impact of disciplinary culture and tradition on many scholarly communication habits. These traditions may override the perceived "opportunities" afforded by new technologies, including those falling into the Web 2.0 category. As we have listened to our diverse informants, as well as followed closely the prognostications about the likely future of scholarly communication, we note that it is absolutely imperative to be precise about terms. That includes being clear about what is meant by "open access" publishing (i.e., using preprint or postprint servers for scholarship published in prestigious outlets versus publishing in new, untested open access journals, or the more casual individual posting of working papers, blogs, and other non-peer-reviewed work). Our research suggests that enthusiasm for technology development and adoption should not be conflated with the hard reality of tenure and promotion requirements (including the needs and goals of final archival publication) in highly competitive professional environments.
Title: Interim Report: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication
Publication date 2008-05-01
Publication Year 2008
Authors
C. Judson King
, Diane Harley
, Sarah Earl-Novell
, Shannon Lawrence
, Sophia Krzys Acord
Copyright holder(s)
Center for Studies in Higher Education
Keywords
scholarly
, scholars
, tenure and promotion
, interim report
, interviewees
Document type
CaseStudy
, Issue/Policy Brief
, Report/Whitepaper
, Text
Language
English
URL: https://oer.issuelab.org/resource/interim-report-assessing-the-future-landscape-of-scholarly-communication.html
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