Keynote from Simon Tanner presented as part of the Academic Book Week launch at the University of Liverpool.
http://www.liv.ac.uk/histories-languages-and-cultures/research/academic-book-week/
Academic Book Week Launch Event
Monday, 9 November, from 2.00-3.30pm in the School of the Arts Library, 19 Abercromby Square
This event provides an insight into key issues regarding the academic book, as well as an overview of all the events taking place during the week at the University of Liverpool. The keynote speaker will be Simon Tanner of King’s College, London, and member of the Academic Book of the Future project. Simon will speak on the topic of ‘The Academic Book of the Future and Communities of Practice’. Respondents will be Charles Forsdick and Claire Taylor of the University of Liverpool, who will respond from the perspectives of Translating Cultures and Digital Transformations, respectively.
Focus on Modern Languages and Linguistics - Investigating the REF 2014 as another means of understanding academic books
1. Simon Tanner
King’s College London
@SimonTanner
@AcBookFuture
#AcBookFuture
#AcBookWeek
Investigating the REF 2014 as another means
of understanding academic books:
Focus on Modern Languages,
English and History
3. Project team:
Samantha Rayner, Nick Canty & Rebecca Lyons (UCL),
Simon Tanner & Marilyn Deegan (KCL)
Michael Jubb as key consultant
Project Board Chair: Kathryn Sutherland, Oxford
University
Context of Project
#AcBookFuture
Project Board
Core Management
Group
Stakeholders
Partners
Community Coalition
AHRC/BL Steering
Group
4. Starting Point
#AcBookFuture
To examine the roles and purposes of academic books to serve
scholarship and wider learning
To examine and analyse the dynamics of academic book
production, curation, and use
To investigate and assess the opportunities and challenges
associated with technological developments
( v i a 2 p h a s e s o f a c t i v i t y )
https://academicbookfuture.wordpress.com/
“What do scholars want?” We all want our cultural record to be comprehensive,
stable, and accessible. And we all want to be able to augment that record with
our own contributions.
Jerome McGann, Sustainability: the Elephant in the Room.
Paper for the 2010 Conference, Digital Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come.
5. Investigating the
REF2014
#AcBookFuture
REF 2014 submissions provides a rich data set as a means of
learning more about the academic books created and deemed
worthy of submission in the last REF cycle (2009-2014).
Focus = Main Panel D for Arts and Humanities.
Within this Panel the data can be investigated by Unit of
Assessment Subject Area and by Research Output Type.
Likely outcomes:
Allow an identification of who are the publishers of the book
submissions
Other possibilities:- author gender, book format/length etc,
books per submitting institution, open access books
Results may stimulate discourse
Caveats abound...
20. Get in touch!
@AcBookFuture
The Academic Book of the Future
https://academicbookfuture.wordpress.com/
s.rayner@ucl.ac.uk
simon.tanner@kcl.ac.uk
@SimonTanner
#AcBookFuture