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Lindsay Waters on the (possibility of a) shift away from scholarly monographs

By propertyprof

Not quite sure how this important discussion has escaped our comment here in the lounge.  Thanks to a link from HUP's publicity blog, I see that the extraordinary Lindsay Waters, executive humanities editor at Harvard University Press, is writing and speaking about a coming shift away from monographs as the gold standard in humanities, towards articles.   Here's a link to his piece at insidehighereducation last year (what he's referring to as slow writing--a movement to write less and better at the same time) and to an ihe article about his ideas recently.

When Waters' article in The Journal of Scholarly Publishing goes on-line, I'll be back with some more thoughts about this.

I find this intriguing--in no small part because the shift away from monographs in the humanities seems to be occurring at the same time that a shift towards them is occurring in law.

Al Brophy

Full post as published by The Faculty Lounge on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).