Scholarship 2.0

Laura Blankenship January 12th, 2008

For the last two days, I’ve been at NITLE’s Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age conference.  It’s been a great conference so far.  Both Tim and Kathleen have been liveblogging the panels and have really good notes and commentary on each of those sessions.  Here are what I think are some key points so far:

  • Scholarship needs to change
  • Promotion and tenure requirements often get in the way of pursuing new forms of scholarship
  • Many issues about publishing digitally have yet to be worked out
  • There are lots of interesting projects being pursued, often out of sheer devotion to a topic
  • It’s difficult to get faculty to participate in projects, and to weigh in on the issues

I’m looking forward to a few more good sessions today.

Click and Double-Click 17: Web 2.0 and Academic Publishing

Laura Blankenship June 20th, 2007

This week, Mark and I talked to Tim Burke from Swarthmore College and Collin Brooke from Syracuse University about various issues related to Academic Publishing in the web 2.0 world. They’ve both written in their blogs about these issues. Here are some of the posts that inspired the show:

Fun with Intellectual Property Issues
If Tuesday Began with the letters CSH
Is it really so complicated?

We covered a lot of ground, from the economics of publishing to tenure and promotion to tagging. I think the words of the day were “distribution” and “circulation.”

Enjoy!

Episode 17 (mp3; approx. 40 mb)

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