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020 _a9780814727881
040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aZ286
_bF559 P 2011
100 1 _aFitzpatrick, Kathleen,
_9179841
245 1 0 _aPlanned obsolescence :
_bpublishing, technology, and the future of the academy /
_cKathleen Fitzpatrick.
260 _aNew York :
_bNew York University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a245 p. :
_bill.
505 _aHKBU Library
520 _a"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. "--
650 0 _aScholarly publishing
_zUnited States.
_925430
650 0 _aScholarly electronic publishing
_zUnited States.
_9179842
650 0 _aCommunication in learning and scholarship
_xTechnological innovations
_zUnited States.
_9179843
900 _a = C.1 SDU
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