Hiring: Research Communication Officer – Scholarly Communications Lab | ScholCommLab

"One of the key components of academic career advancement are the review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) packets that are prepared by faculty on a regular basis as part of their standard performance evaluations. As such, the RPT process in general, and the guidelines that inform the content of RPT packets, are a natural place to effect change in academia. While this is true of many aspects of academic life, it is especially true of the changes needed for a greater opening of access to research (something both Canada and the US have been pushing for through federal policies and laws). This project examined the RPT process in the US and Canada with the goal of directly informing actions likely to translate into behavioural change and to a greater opening of research.

The project has already yielded several important findings, which have been disseminated through peer reviewed publications:

1. On the Public Dimensions of Faculty Work;
2. On the Use of the Journal Impact Factor; and
3. On the Perceptions of Faculty...."