About the session
9.30am, Wednesday 1st April 2015
Jill Emery, Portland State University
Material that is considered academic scholarship is no longer limited to the article and the book. Whilst articles and books may still be the best avenues for gaining tenure, many new models of academic scholarship are emerging and these include but are not limited to: 3-D printed objects, data sets, log posts, wikis, digital humanities web resources, streaming audio-visual materials, and websites. Many of these scholarly
outputs can help further research and methodology in very
practical ways in the global information economy. Given that many of these alternatives to traditional scholarship are openly accessible, and neither copyrighted under standard means like creative commons CC-BY nor assigned metadata like DOIs, the question now is whether these materials are being referred to and reused by others, both within and outside the academy, in an appropriate manner. Have the principles for reuse and
reference for these forms of scholarship been codified in the academy across all disciplines or are they misunderstood? What can librarians do to best serve their scholarly communities for both the creation and reuse of alternative forms of scholarship?
