Submissions:2019/Nontraditional Scholarship: Evaluation and Citation
This submission has been accepted for WikiConference North America 2019.
Title:
- Nontraditional Scholarship: Evaluation and Citation
Theme:
- Reliability of Information
+ Inclusion and Diversity
Type of session:
- Panel
Abstract:
Beyond traditional brand-name academic publishers like Wiley and Oxford University Press, how do Wikipedians know when to trust new genres of scholarly research output? Innovative, open-source publishing platforms such as the Open Science Framework, Scalar, and MIT's PubPub provide exciting new affordances in the knowledge ecosystem. For example, the recent Boston Area Digital Scholarship Symposium 2019 included discussion of scholarly efforts such as the Archive of African American Folklore, the Encyclopedia of the Variant Readings of the Qurʾān, and the Women Writers Project.
How to evaluate new scholarship outside of traditionally formatted journals and books? What criteria to use? Are there some genres or platforms that should not be cited in Wikipedia? How to represent bibliographic entities in new formats in Wikidata? How to cite new genres in Wikipedia articles? This panel of experts in scholarly communication will discuss quality criteria and signifiers of nontraditional and emerging scholarship that's citable in Wikipedia.
Confirmed panelists:
- Peter Suber, director, Harvard Library Office for Scholarly Communication. Author of nontraditional dynamic scholarly works (Society Publishers with Open Access Journals spreadsheet; Open Access (the book) wiki) and of writing about new genres (such as "The idea of an open-access evidence rack," 2012). World-renowned expert on open access.
- [Others TBA]
Academic Peer Review option:
- Yes
Author name:
E-mail address:
- anne_britton
harvard.edu
Wikimedia username:
Affiliated organization(s):
Estimated time:
- 45 minutes
Preferred room size:
Special requests:
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- Not exactly. I presented a poster on "Wikidata for Digital Scholarship" at the 2019 Boston Area Digital Scholarship Symposium.
If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)
- Yes