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A fascinating article by Michael Jensen from Chronicle Review, the Chronicle of Higher education, The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority ( June 15, 2007), discusses scholarly communication now in the abundance of Web 2.0 information, and in a Web 3.0 era. Engaged participation online challenges the authority frameworks of print publishing processes, and opens the doors to authority mechanisms in Web 3.0 based on heavily computed reputation-and-authority metrics, using many of the kinds of elements now used, as well as on elements that can be computed only in an information-rich, user-engaged environment.

For universities, the challenge will be ensuring that scholars who are making more and more of their material available online will be fairly judged in hiring and promotion decisions. It will mean being open to the widening context in which scholarship is published, and it will mean that faculty members will have to take the time to learn about — and give credit for — the new authority metrics, instead of relying on scholarly publishers to establish the importance of material for them.

[Source : Michael Habib]

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