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Author Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1967- author

Title Planned obsolescence : publishing, technology, and the future of the academy / Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Published New York : New York University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Contents Peer review -- Authorship -- Texts -- Preservation -- The university
Summary "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 reconceiving 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."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-230) and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Scholarly publishing -- United States
Scholarly electronic publishing -- United States
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations -- United States
LAW -- Media & the Law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations
Scholarly electronic publishing
Scholarly publishing
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814728963
0814728960