digital scholarship & publishing
DESCRIPTION
A presentation for an IET publication policy workshop, I was making the case for alternative forms of outputTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Digital Scholarship
Martin Weller
![Page 2: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Blogging as microcosm of digital scholarship
![Page 3: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Blogging is…
Social
![Page 4: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Blogging is…
Democratic
![Page 5: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Blog posts can be..
![Page 6: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Tech
Politics
Footie
![Page 7: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
![Page 8: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Professional
Informal
![Page 9: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
To no-one To 1000s
![Page 10: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Some questions
• Do they represent 'proper scholarship' (whatever that is)• Are they central or peripheral to practice?• Are they applicable to all domains?• Are they more useful for some scholarly functions than
others eg teaching?• How do we recognize quality?• Do they complement or replace existing channels?• Should we reward them through official routes such as
tenure?• Should bloggers use institutional systems or separate
out their blogging and formal identities?
![Page 11: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Big question
<Does blogging change the nature of research?>
![Page 12: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Tenure and reward
![Page 13: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
3 legged stool
![Page 14: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
How do we recognise dig schol?
![Page 15: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
enthusiasm for the development and adoption of technology should not be conflated with the hard reality of tenure and promotion requirements in highly competitive and complex professional environments. Experiments in new genres of scholarship and dissemination are occurring in every field, but they are taking place within the context of relatively conservative value and reward systems that have the practice of peer review at their core.”
Harley et al 2010
![Page 16: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Cheverie et al (2009): “While this community talks about ‘publication’, the language used implies that digital scholarship is of significantly lesser value, and word of mouth to younger colleagues discourages digital scholarship in the hiring, tenure and promotion process
![Page 17: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Outsourced evaluation
Waters (2000): “ to a considerable degree people in departments stopped assessing for themselves the value of a candidate as a scholar and started waiting for the presses to decide”.
![Page 18: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Heppell (2001) “we continually make the error of subjugating technology to our present practice rather than allowing it to free us from the tyranny of past mistakes.”
![Page 19: Digital scholarship & publishing](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022062404/5549d297b4c9051c778b4d8d/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Digital scholarship gives alternatives where there were none previously