Developing indicators of the impact of scholarly communication is a massive technical challenge – but it’s also much simpler than that

Conversations on impact tend to revolve around technical issue of measurement and finding appropriate metrics. To widen the conversation J. Britt Holbrook presents a list of 56 indicators of impact developed by the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity to help simplify the question of impact. By moving beyond technical aspects there is a greater opportunity for academics to embrace and explore other facets of impact

Ecce Homo Academicus -- The revaluation of higher education values

Evaluation can be seen as an opportunity for transvaluation, or what Nietzsche called the revaluation of values. However, evaluation is often treated instead as the enforcement of standards – standardization rather than transformation. When evaluation as transvaluation and evaluation as standardization are both used to evaluate the same subjects, things are working at cross purposes. How can individuals subject to such competing evaluation regimes respond in ways that go beyond mere survival (publish or perish) and instead promote excellence as academic flourishing? This presentation recounts – sometimes in an autobiographical fashion that brings the issues into sharper relief – various ways (both conceptual and actual) of responding to the challenge. In doing so it outlines a notion of academic flourishing and argues that this ideal, rather than meeting minimum standards, should be used in evaluations for academic advancement (including promotion and tenure)

Philosophy and Science Policy: A Report from the Field

This presentation presents a case study in philosophy and science policy surrounding Plan S and argues that we need new ways of evaluating such approaches to research

Incorporating Societal Impact into Academic Research

The 2018 International Research Conference at UC Davis focuses on: Changing political environment and its impact on international research Increasing importance of networks and consortia in advancing international research Role of interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary research in solving global challenges Educating the next generation of international researchers This conference brings together leading international research professionals from across industries, including: Higher Education Senior International Officers Vice Presidents, Vice Chancellors for Research Faculty, Researchers and Scientists Graduate Students Private and Public Funding Agencies Industry and Community Organization

What is interdisciplinary communication? Reflections on the very idea of disciplinary integration

Article discussing interdisciplinary communication and reflections on the idea of disciplinary integration

The Use Of Societal Impacts Considerations In Grant Proposal Peer Review: A Comparison Of Five Models

This article discusses the use of societal impacts considerations in grant proposal peer review in scientific and technical research

We Scholars: How Libraries Could Help Us with Scholarly Publishing, if Only We'd Let Them

Copyright © 2015 ACRLA look at some of the issues important to discussions of the library's role as a scholarly publisher

Balancing Act: Open Access and Academic Freedom

Presentation delivered at ISMPP 2019