@article{455852,
      recid = {455852},
      author = {Fitzpatrick, Kathleen,},
      title = {Planned obsolescence publishing, technology, and the  future of the academy / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {New York University Press,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 245 p.) :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly  publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as  never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are  having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and  tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working  without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate  them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think  more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for  reconceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways.  Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses  on the technological changes--especially greater  utilization of internet publication technologies, including  digital archives, social networking tools, and  multimedia--necessary to allow academic publishing to  thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting  that the key issues that must be addressed are social and  institutional in origin. Springing from original research  as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new  modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the  digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned  Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as  well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital  scholarship and the place of publishing within the  structure of the contemporary university. Written in an  approachable style designed to bring administrators and  scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores  both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly  communication will remain relevant in the digital future.  "-- $c Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/455852},
}