Examines perceptions of faculty and promotion and tenure-committee members regarding the perceived prestige and legitimacy of electronic journals as an outlet for scholarly communication. Respondents gave the greatest importance to the role of peer-reviewed publications to the tenure, promotion, and merit-review process; therefore, the long-term…

Outlines 50 specific ways in which law schools can encourage and support faculty scholarly efforts, including creating an intellectual environment supportive of scholarship, arranging time for scholarly activities, finding ways to pay additional money for scholarship, changing hiring and retention policies to promote scholarship, and using…

Contends that this article, a reflection on research as poetic rumination, is scholarly writing, though it might not look or sound like the writing that fills academic journals. Criticizes research that is "bloodless," having been written in the sterility of the monastic sanctum and the academic study. (VWC)

Discussion of the relationship between academic librarians and faculty focuses on the process of the faculty citation search, where librarians conduct online searches for citations to faculty publications. Topics include the reference/search process, relational challenges, psychological stress, role reversal, difference in search objectives, and…

Investigates two competing perspectives, accumulated advantage and institutional isomorphism, on the relationship between publication productivity and institutional hierarchy. Accumulated advantage refers to the continuing attraction of students, faculty, and research dollars to prestige universities. Institutional isomorphism denotes the tendency…

A survey of junior faculty tenure policies at 37 dental schools found: (1) the most prevalent probationary period was seven years; (2) faculty were expected to have a minimum of 6-15 publications; (3) only 39% were perceived to offer a financial guarantee with award of tenure; and (4) 69% offered an alternative track for selected full-time…

Examines the entry of the major academic publishing houses into World Wide Web publishing. Suggests that early experimentation in Web publishing began unevenly with areas that needed improvement. Concludes with a discussion about the implications of the traditional academic publisher's presence on the Web. (Author/AEF)

Surveyed editors of academic journals about publication issues related to Britain's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), a process of grading and funding universities based on published research output. Editors were asked about research quality and output, publication practices, academics' willingness to referee manuscripts, and proliferation of…

Offers a poststructuralist analysis of the UK higher education sector's academic division of labor, exploring some new contradictions from a contract researcher's standpoint. Raises political, social, and methodological questions about these divisions by exploring their class and gender dimensions. Too many academics remain silent about adverse…

Examines the relative importance of teaching and scholarship in academia. The article scrutinizes the reasons for requiring academics to combine research and teaching and argues that scholarship and teaching are inextricable parts of the larger process of learning. The article concludes that good teaching must accompany the constant quest for the…

Over 40% of women assistant professors in a recent survey (n=124) identified publishing, teaching, committees, and "time required by children" as serious impediments to achieving tenure, many more than reported sexual harassment and sexism as serious obstacles. Policy changes that will accommodate women professors' time commitments to…

This study sought to develop a correlate model of 3-year scholarly performance of 296 clinical pharmacy faculty. Participants were surveyed concerning refereed research, grants/books research, and nonresearch scholarship. Eight correlates, including two related to the departmental workplace, emerged as significant factors in scholarly performance.…

Describes a study that was conducted to determine the relationship between journals in which library and information science faculty who specialize in library media centers publish most frequently and those they regard as most prestigious. Publication in journals highly regarded by deans is discussed, and faculty productivity is considered.…

Examines the association between departmental prestige and faculty scholarship for the discipline of sociology using evaluative ratings from three national studies and objective data on publications. Scholarship was far less important in determining current prestige ratings than either the past reputations of departments or those of their…

Examines the academic journal, past, present, and future (using the Journal of Education for Teaching as an example), discussing how the development of the electronic journal has changed and revolutionized publishing in recent years, and concluding that in the future, articles will be published in a different format and the purchase of individual…