Rethinking Peer Review and the Fate of the Monograph

Abstract

The MLA's Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Pro motion is to be commended for producing a thoughtful, fair-minded, and constructive report, informed by careful research into historical trends and current conditions. The report provides an extraordinarily clear and useful account of the present crisis for all of us who are concerned about transformations in scholarly publishing and their particularly heavy im pact on junior faculty members.