Comments on: How the Sausage is Made: Transparency in Scholarly Research Online

By: Brian Croxall

Brian Croxall — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:49:39 +0000

I’d suggest that if we want to cultivate an audience then we can’t go about worrying if UPs will decide we’ve already put too much information online. The mechanisms of the university and the public are fairly separate, and I think if we want to let people in to see how the sausage is made that we need to plan to forego monograph publication to a large extent.

If that sounds scary, it’s worth remembering that it’s us, the scholars, who decide what forms of review we’ll accept as binding. And it need not always remain the university press published monograph.

By: angshah

angshah — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:38:59 +0000

I’d be really interested to know what tools scholars use to give depth to even the shortest blog posts. DocumentCloud, for example, is really interesting to me.

By: Jack Dougherty

Jack Dougherty — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:28:52 +0000

Love the sausage-making metaphor and thanks for recommending our volume. Co-editor Kristen Nawrotzki and I tried to show as much about digital scholarship-making process as possible in our new “Conclusions” at WritingHistory.trincoll.edu

By: Alex Galarza

Alex Galarza — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:04:29 +0000

I should also mention that Writing History in the Digital Age would be an excellent starting point for this session.