This paper addresses the difficult issues of balancing faculty and university rights and responsibilities regarding courseware and courseware modules developed as both commissioned and non-commissioned works. The ways in which this debate affects those who are engaged in building their own online courses for their universities, courseware…

This study used the multilevel modeling method to analyze the research productivity of 1,104 tenured or tenure track faculty from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The study compared statistical and substantive results of multilevel modeling (or hierarchical linear modeling) to the traditional regression approach. Two dependent…

From an economic and technologic perspective, self-publishing through electronic media is now a viable and attractive alternative to traditional publisher-mediated channels. For academicians developing a multi-authored hypermedia publication, a common vision must be created by defining pedagogical objectives; roles of all involved; authoring…

Investigates the importance of book reviews to science and technology scholars and humanities and social science scholars. Focuses on the sources, importance, and utility of book reviews for information seeking; research by scholars and scholars' criteria for useful book reviews; and whether scholars use electronic book reviews. (Author/AEF)

Identifies several aspects of citing behavior (reasons for citing, criteria used in decision making, and metalevel documentation concerns) by directly questioning researchers about decisions to cite or not to cite specific documents. The results reported are preliminary results related to citing behavior derived from a qualitative, longitudinal…

A perception among junior social work faculty at one Midwestern university that writing barriers posed a threat to career development led to creation of a writer's guild, a collaborative, nonhierarchical approach to supporting scholarship. The group addresses personal writing difficulties, publication concerns, information needs, grant writing,…

Explores how small countries are connected to the international research community. Examines contact between faculty members at Norwegian universities and their colleagues abroad. Reveals that international publishing is considerably lower by faculty in the social sciences and humanities, despite the fact that they have almost as many foreign…

Using Ernest Boyer's categories of scholarly activity, a framework for scholarly contribution was developed and is currently used at the DePaul University (Illinois) School for New Learning. The framework includes assumptions regarding scholarship, expectations for faculty scholarly activity, and definitions and criteria for four forms of…

Argues that the claim that the community college has a unique teaching mission has been used to exempt community college faculty from participation in scholarly discourse. Suggests encouraging community college faculty scholarship that meets the test of external scrutiny would offer faculty an appropriate voice in higher education. (Contains 28…

Describes the involvement of Middlesex Community College, Massachusetts, in the Carnegie Teaching Academy program. Faculty and staff at the college broadened their understanding of instructional pedagogy through greater appreciation of relevant connections between learning theory and classroom practice. Argues that faculty scholarship ultimately…

Criticizes the large amount of often irrelevant, poorly designed, and poorly written quantitative journalism research. Notes that journalism education and mass communication education research published in scholarly journals is largely ignored by professional journalists, who find more value in the qualitative research reported in the journalism…

A survey examined the professional affiliation (law school teacher vs. political science teacher) of individuals publishing articles on international law in law reviews, general political science journals, political science journals with an international focus, and international law journals to learn more about the distribution of international…

A study exploring the relationship between scholarly productivity, in terms of publication and citation rates, and institutional reputation among leading social work schools is reported. Records for 333 faculty from 13 schools were analyzed in relation to 7 hypotheses of publication/citation rate and institutional productivity; results are…

Describes the questions pertinent to the use of blind peer reviewers for refereed scholarly journals. Discusses the pros and cons of using peer reviewers. Outlines the findings of a research study to determine how authors perceived their relationship with peer reviewers, and the usefulness of peer reports. (HB)

Describes a pilot study examining the attitudes of presidents and chief academic officers at the 19 New Jersey community colleges toward faculty scholarship. Indicates that although 81% of respondents were willing to offer more incentives for scholarship, 87% were unwilling to reduce teaching loads and 77% were unwilling to require scholarship.…