These documents may be useful for you. American Historical Association (2001). Suggested Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Media Activities in Tenure, Review, and Promotion ~ An AAHC Document, American Historical Association. http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2001/0110/0110pro1.cfm Our Cultural Commonwealth: The report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences, John Unsworth (Commission Chair), with commission members and Marlo Welshons (editor). ACLS: New York, 2006. http://www.acls.org/uploadedFiles/Publications/Programs/Our_Cultural_Comm onwealth.pdf And maybe this. Inside Higher Ed (December 30, 2005). Radical change for tenure. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2005/12/30/tenure /Caroline ---- Original message ----
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:40:29 -0400 From: Stuart Shulman <stuart.shulman@gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Rethinking Promotion and Tenure Criteria in the Digital Age To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
A task force is preparing a document for the Faculty Senate at UMass Amherst on scholarship in the digital age. We talk about lots of vexing issues with respect to old and new or emerging reward structures, the economics of publishing, etc. Most of the members are library-centric scholars, or actual librarians. I find myself tasked with drafting the section on promotion and review considerations. In particular, I have been asked to show some examples where universities, schools, colleges or specific departments have found new types of scholarly artifacts worthy of recognition. If you know of an example where the traditional consideration of books and articles in top tier journals is being augmented with other types of uniquely digital contributions, please let me know directly.
I will share the results of this survey with the list when it is complete.
Many thanks, ~Stu
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