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Proposal:
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There is a current, informal tendency for some departments and colleges to regard peer reviewed electronic publications as equivalent to peer reviewed printed publications. The purpose of the following proposal is to establish this as a policy for the entire campus. The proposed wording is as follows:
Articles in an established electronic journal are to be considered equivalent to articles in a printed journal provided that the criteria for both publications are similar (e.g, peer reviewed, non-peer reviewed, etc.).
As publication costs increase, and more and more journals begin to restrict their publications to electronic formats, the University needs to adopt formally the concept that articles with the same basic requirement, whether printed on paper or dispersed electronically, should be treated equally when considerations are being made for academic advancement, promotion, and/or tenure. At present, individual departments and/or colleges may or may not have formal policy dealing with electronic publications. Adoption of this proposal will establish the principle that certain, specific kinds of electronic works should be considered equal to printed works that have the same basic requirements for publication.
Some units of the University may distinguish between peer and non-peer reviewed publications, books, articles, notes, reviews, etc. The above proposal simply states that electronic works that have a set of requirements as printed works are to be considered to have equal merit. |
