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| Autor/in | Olson, Gary A. |
|---|---|
| Titel | Certifying Online Research |
| Quelle | In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 39, (1 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 0009-5982 |
| Schlagwörter | College Faculty; Electronic Journals; Electronic Publishing; Technology Uses in Education; Scholarship; Peer Evaluation; Community Needs; Evaluation Criteria; Reliability; Tenure; Rewards; Certification; Faculty Promotion |
| Abstract | The digital revolution has substantially improved scholarly work, but it has also brought challenges to those who are charged with overseeing their institutions' tenure, promotion, and rewards processes. While several electronic forms compete for legitimacy, the two most prominent are journals published exclusively online and Web sites devoted to scholarly subjects. As more and more electronic journals adopt peer-review processes that replicate the rigorous ones employed by established print journals, many e-journals are acquiring reputations for comparable rigor. Over time, each discipline will arrive at a general consensus about the status of various e-journals in the same way that they once did for print journals. Scholarly Web sites, however, present a unique set of challenges to college administrators. In the print world, scholars generally agree about which sources are reputable. All notable scholarly presses thoroughly vet each project, and certain venues have gained reputations for conducting especially rigorous peer reviews. No such formal gatekeeping, in contrast, is in place for the scholarly sites on the Internet. And since no vetting mechanism for scholarly sites exists, even those that are designed by reputable scholars typically undergo no formal review. Such uncertainty disrupts the orderly intercourse of scholarly activity and plays havoc with the tenure-and-promotion system. Clearly, the scholarly community needs to devise a way to introduce dependability into the world of electronic scholarship. They need a process to certify sites so that they can distinguish between one that contains reliable material and one that may have been slapped together by a dilettante. They need to be able to ascertain if they can rely on a site for their own scholarship and whether they should give credit toward a colleague's tenure and promotion for a given site. (ERIC). |
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| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2017/4/10 |
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