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Thursday, September 19, 2013 at 4:00pm
Kroch Library, Room 2B48
Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
Fitzpatrick’s talk will build on CU’s campus-wide discussion last Spring of her book, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy (NYU Press, 2011).
In Planned Obsolescence, Fitzpatrick argues that reliance on print publishing and scholarly practices of anonymous peer review for tenure and promotion within the academy reinforces an economically unsustainable model of professional academic culture. In her work as director of scholarly communication of the Modern Language Association, Fitzpatrick embraces more open digital alternatives.
Fitzpatrick’s talk this fall as the inaugural event of the Fall 2013 Conversations in Digital Humanities series will focus on open access and the possibility of transforming scholarly communities.
Since the seventeenth-century founding of the Royal Society of London, scholarly societies have been dedicated to facilitating communication among their members. For the most part, that communication has taken place through annual meetings and periodical publications. The affordances of the internet, however, have begun to change the ways that members of those societies are connecting with one another, as well as with the broader public. Moreover, calls for public access to the products of scholarly research are increasing, and often seem to be at odds with the membership-based ethos of scholarly societies. This talk will explore some of those changes, describing one potential path forward into an increasingly open future.
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is visiting research professor of English at NYU and co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, where she has led a number of experiments in open peer review and other innovations in scholarly publishing.
Free and open to all
Mickey Casad
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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