It’s Time to Embrace Newer Forms of Scholarly Communication

Eric Schnell is one smart cookie, looks back at a letter to the promotion and tenure committee after being tenured back in 1997.

Important scholarly communications are now being delivered using any number of personal communications conduits including blogs, online journals, e-mail, forum posts, podcasts, Twitter tweets, text messages, or instant messages. Still, academics dismiss this type of content as being less valuable.