Running Towards Publication, Then Walking Away – Culture Digitally.
This article caught my eye for a number of reasons.
For one thing, I’m just finishing a book and so I’m thinking about this a fair bit, but for another, I do not have a permanent position at any institution, and haven’t had one for some years. This means I am spared the usual annual reporting that most salaried academics must endure every year (or in some cases two).
These days, I mostly publish things that I think people might be interested in learning about – usually based on feedback. And, really, publishing is supposed to be about sharing knowledge, not feathering caps.
As the risk of sounding too obvious, something is clearly out of joint when the most important things a scholar writes, the things that might influence conversations, get cited, and get taught, appear in venues that are automatically discounted by backward-thinking tenure committees that still focus on journals and books as the only or most important publication outlets. – See more at: http://culturedigitally.org/2015/06/running-towards-publication-then-walking-away/#sthash.G4ouVlUS.dpuf
