Time is a limited resource and the uptake of open scholarship in academia is dependent on recognition of the efforts invested in it. Open Education in Promotion, Tenure, and Faculty Development was produced through the Iowa OER project to help faculty present their work with open educational resources in ways that will be recognized for promotion and tenure (P&T). P&T criteria generally include assessment of teaching, research and service. This resource provides a rubric of OER activities and the evidence that matches the P&T criterion. It also outlines a rationale and strategy for gaining recognition of OER work in P&T requirements, advocacy that has been well done by the UMass Amherst Libraries OER Team. In fact the UMass Amherst Provost Annual Promotion and Tenure Memo is cited as one of three policies that addresses OERs for P&T. The rubric presented in this paper can help faculty make their cases.
Category: Promotion & tenure
Publishing, and receiving credit, for software code
Daniel S. Katz and Hollydawn Murray, supported by more than 15 publishers, write a guest post in the Scholarly Kitchen, “Citing Software in Scholarly Publishing to Improve Reproducibility, Reuse and Credit.” They make a case for authors and publishers to publish and cite software code itself, rather than merely an article about the code or research that was generated using code. Properly cited, open software enables others to reproduce research and modify and reuse that code for further developments. Those who write the code deserve credit for this critical work and they can’t receive it if their software isn’t properly cited. The FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group has proposed a set of customizable guidelines to clearly identify the software and credit its developers and maintainers.