Archive for 'Research Issues'
Impact Factors Adjusted for Reality
An interesting study forthcoming in the September issue of C&RL tackles the question of how our scholarship is evaluated by tenure and promotion committees. As a tenured librarian in a department in which half of the faculty are currently working toward tenure, this question intrigues me. Fortunately, my non-librarian colleagues at my institution do not [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on November 7th, 2009 under Higher Education, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications, Worth Reading.
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Beware Of Overconfidence
I hope you took some time to take a look at the latest ECAR report on undergraduates and their use of and attitudes about technology. In addition to Barbara’s post and some good discussion over at COLLIB-L, I commented (on the discussion list) that I had brought up some of the same issues in my [...]
Posted by StevenB on November 3rd, 2009 under Research Issues, Student Issues.
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Finding Topics & Time for Scholarship
Laura’s recent post about faculty book projects has me thinking about writing. Even though I’ve been at my job for over a year, I still feel lucky to have landed a tenure track position at an academic library that I truly enjoy. During my hiatus from the academic world between my time as an archaeologist [...]
Posted by Maura Smale on August 10th, 2009 under Just Thinking, Research Issues.
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Faculty Blog Round-Up: Writing Books
At the peak of summer, many faculty are in deep research mode, especially with longer projects, like books, that require the kind of travel or in-depth work they can’t schedule during the semester. Here’s an overview of the book-writing process from the inside
Dr. Crazy, an anonymous literature professor, is beginning to ponder her topic.
Anthropologist Auto [...]
Posted by Laura Wimberley on July 24th, 2009 under Books, Faculty, Peer Review, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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I’ll Take the Humanities for Ten Thousand
Jennifer Howard of the Chron (subscription required) offers a preview of a study commissioned by the National Humanities Alliance and funded by Mellon which looked at the back office costs of flagship journals published by scholarly societies (many of them in the social sciences, oddly) and concluded that they actually cost more than STM journals. [...]
Posted by Barbara Fister on July 20th, 2009 under Idiocy, Open Access, Research Issues, Scholarly Communications.
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