基本説明
A provocative exploration of the new modes of scholarly communication, focusing on the technological changes - especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies.
Full Description
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013
A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishing
Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them.
Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes—especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia—necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin.
Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain relevant in the digital future.
Related Articles:
"Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities"—Chronicle of Higher Education
"Academic Publishing and Zombies"—Inside Higher Ed
Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction: Obsolescence 1 Peer Review Traditional Peer Review and Its Defenses The History of Peer Review The Future of Peer Review Anonymity Credentialing The Reputation Economy Community-Based Filtering MediaCommons and Peer-to-Peer Review Credentialing, Revisited 2 Authorship The Rise of the Author The Death of the Author From Product to Process From Individual to Collaborative From Originality to Remix From Intellectual Property to the Gift Economy From Text to ... Something More 3 Texts Documents, E-books, Pages Hypertext Database-Driven Scholarship Reading and the Communications Circuit CommentPress 4 Preservation Standards Metadata Access Cost 5 The University Publishing, Not for Profit New Collaborations Publishing and the University Mission The History of the University Press The Press as University Publisher Sustainability Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
