On the Future of Academic Publishing, Peer Review, and Tenure Requirements (Or, Remaking of the Academy, One Electronic Text at a Time)

Authors

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Pomona CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

Media Studies (Pomona)

Publication Date

1-6-2006

Keywords

Social media, blogs, scholarly communication, publishing, tenure

Abstract

A blog post on the consideration and extension of one of the recommendations made by a MLA task force panel on the evaluation of scholarship for tenure and promotion, as well as a sketch of one possible future, presented in the hopes of opening up a larger conversation about where academic publishing ought to go, and how we might best take it there.

Comments

A pdf of the orginal blog post without the comments can be found in the additional files listed below.

Rights Information

© 2006 Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Terms of Use & License Information

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "On the Future of Academic Publishing, Peer Review, and Tenure Requirements (Or, Remaking the Academy, One Electronic Text at a Time)." The Valve (http://www.thevalve.org/go). 6 January 2006.