It would allow research scientists to be free to retain the portions of the system that work well, while expanding how impact can be achieved beyond the traditional metrics.

Annotation, in the ATI project, helps scholars to make their knowledge claims more transparent and publicly accessible to academic communities.

scholars are annotators

We must think more boldly, more radically, about what sort of media ecosystem we need and deserve if we wish for democracy and decency to have a chance in the remainder of the twenty-first century.

Nothing else has ever made it as easy to find like-minded people and urge them toward opinion or action. Facebook may be the greatest tool for motivation we have ever known. It might be the worst threat to deliberation we have ever faced. Democracies need both motivation and deliberation to thrive.

good intentions

This book reminds us that researchers are human. It reminds us that having our own goals and personal boundaries is okay, and that setting these boundaries and goals mindfully might even help us be good at our job.

For many years, academia has relied on citation count as the main way in which we measure impact or importance of research. As a result, citation count is one of the primary metrics used when evaluating researchers. Citation counts also form the basis for other metrics, most notably Clarivate’s Impact Factor as well as the h-index, which respectively evaluate journal quality/prestige and researcher renown.

science has really discovered spirituality, because — at least, I define “spirituality” from — the word “spirituality,” comes from “spiritus” that means “life,” “breath,” “aliveness.” Spirituality is aliveness on all levels. It must start with our bodily aliveness.

hate

Whoever considers the nature of our government, with discernment, will see, that tho obstacles and delays will frequently stand in the way of the adoption of good measures, yet when once adopted, they are likely to be stable and permanent: It will be far more difficult to undo than to do.

Experiment with different and new models of peer review, particularly those that increase transparency

Yet, when it comes to academic difference, an ethics of hospitality, interest and pleasure in the other all too often seep away, replaced by a drive for ‘robust’ combat between competing academic paradigms and traditions.

Academic writing doesn’t necessarily aspire to represent what is, as if the material world can be imitated point for point in thought, but to create.

But what often gets omitted in thinking about academic conversation is how to converse in a way that enables – even better, stimulates and encourages – unfamiliar others to participate.

Getting older, I feel more strongly that writing should make contact – a more active relationship than simply being accessible. Teaching first year PhD students, I ask them to think about academic work as entering a conversation.

But what often gets omitted in thinking about academic conversation is how to converse in a way that enables – even better, stimulates and encourages – unfamiliar others to participate.

Teaching first year PhD students, I ask them to think about academic work as entering a conversation.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us that nettle us, or that we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Campus IT organizations must be educational organizations - in that technology is now inseparably linked to the core teaching and knowledge creation missions of higher education.

It’s something like a neutral idea or expectation that you could, or should, be better than you are—and that naturally you want to be better than you are, and will spend some effort to become capable of growing—and that every worthy person does.

The liberal arts teach us to act toward others with humility and respect because we recognize there are multiple ways to look at the world. 

the liberal arts build empathy and compassion, the very foundations of democracy

the initiative

Such a framing can move our perception of writing problems from a model of deficiency to one of professional development, helping writing support to gain institutional traction.

Hypothes.is seems to provide the perfect starting point for a discussion on the positive potential for developing a de-centralised architecture for collaborative research

brainstorming and pre-planning for the development of an economically viable and sustainable alternative to for-profit research-sharing social platforms such as Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and Mendeley.

legal and financial skills

Monographs will be written as long as they remain the sine qua non for promotion and tenure; but they’ll be accessed in discrete units/chapters and will be linked to and integrated with other content, and will include new forms of media.

If groups such as the Digital Library of America, the Hathi Trust, and the Internet Archive move beyond chiefly preserving public domain material, they may have an impact.

Information may still be “controlled” and will not always be free, but the trend toward more widely available scholarly information outside the confines of a traditional research library—the democratization of information that began with the advent of the Internet age—will increase.

Almost all presses increasingly rely upon technology to manage the overarching process; this requires skilled information technologists who know not only technology but how publishing works. And besides wanting the usual, mandatory qualities in a colleague—integrity, accuracy, excellent communication skills, attention to detail, adaptability, collegiality—presses need staff who recognize the ever-changing environment and who are themselves willing to adapt.

Books have an aesthetic above and beyond what’s between the boards.

Second, whereas the physical format of a printed journal was not essentially itself a conveyor of meaning, that is not always the case with a book.

I say “book” not “print” because I am interested in both print and digital (ebook) publishing. Whereas journals have transitioned more successfully to a digital world, much of scholarly book publishing remains in limbo.

Apart from a few formal “Publishing Courses” and a handful of schools offering courses in publishing, the industry has typically been more of an apprentice-based enterprise than a professionally accredited one.

And learning how to be happy in your work is maybe the most important—and most neglected—part of graduate education.

The philosophy faculty is comprised of scholars who are free to pursue and to teach what we now consider to be the arts and sciences in a critical fashion, without interference from the other faculties and from the government.

freedom from government-sanctioned doctrinal constraints; and freedom to pursue the truth wherever it might lead in making a contribution to the world of learning.

It is the common thread that continues to run through them and that enables us to relate them to one another within a maximally broad conversation that is open to all, but is not (or, at least, as I see it, should not be) dominated by any one