Final Report on CSHE/Mellon Study on Faculty
Practices in
The Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of
California, Berkeley, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, has been conducting a major multi-year study of how
faculty needs and research practices shape their choices about
scholarly communication. The final report on this work is now
available, as described in the announcement copied below. In my view,
this is a very important look at where faculty thinking and practice
stands in regard to the changing scholarly communication environment,
including a sensitive examination of differences across
disciplines. We've been fortunate to have updates on this work at some
of the CNI member meetings, and I hope to be able to host a report on
this most current work in the near future.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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We are delighted to announce the publication of the final
report:
Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An
Exploration of Faculty Values and Needs in Seven Disciplines.
The full report can be accessed at: http://escholarship.org/uc/cshe_fsc
Since 2005, the Center for
Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), with generous funding from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been
conducting research to understand the needs and practices of faculty
for in-progress scholarly communication (i.e., forms of communication
employed as research is being executed) as well as archival
publication.
The final report brings together the responses of 160 interviewees
across 45, mostly elite, research institutions in seven selected
academic fields: archaeology, astrophysics, biology, economics,
history, music, and political science. Our premise has always been
that disciplinary conventions matter and that social realities (and
individual personality) will dictate how new practices, including
those under the rubric of Web 2.0 or cyberinfrastructure, are adopted
by scholars. That is, the academic values embodied in disciplinary
cultures, as well as the interests of individual players, have to be
considered when envisioning new schemata for the communication of
scholarship at its various stages.
Links to the complete results of our ongoing work can be found at
the Future of Scholarly Communication's project website.
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Diane Harley, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator and Director, Higher Education in the Digital
Age Project,
Center for Studies in Higher Education
771 Evans Hall, # 4650
University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720
http://cshe.berkeley.edu/people/dharley.htm
scproject@berkeley.edu
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