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Promotion and Tenure for Digital Scholarship

An Open Letter to the Promotion and Tenure Committee at Texas A&M University, Department of English, upon their request for information about how to evaluate digital work for promotion and tenure.

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Documenting a New Media Case

This material was developed by an online open-content collaborative of individuals and groups working to develop a common resource for the profession using an online wiki. The structure of the project allowed anyone with an Internet connection to alter its content. 

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Evaluating Scholarly Digital Outputs: The Six Layers Approach

Developing standards to evaluate scholarly digital output is one of the most significant problems our generation of digital humanists can work on. The improvement of tools and methods, the elaboration of theoretical perspectives, and (above all else) the development of digital outputs, will always be of primary importance.

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Evaluating Multimodal Work, Revisited

Two years ago I was preparing for a semester in which all of my classes involved “multimodal” student work — that is, theoretically-informed, research-based work that resulted in something other than a traditional paper.

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Evaluating Digital Humanities Work: Guidelines for Librarians

In this piece, Zach Coble explores the benefits of creating guidelines for the evaluation of librarians’ digital humanities work for the purposes of hiring, appointment, tenure, and promotion, and offers a basic framework for what those guidelines might look like.

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