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- From: tcamp@acpub.duke.edu (Ted A. Campbell)
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- Subject: Hypertext and the Peer-Review Process
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:18:38 GMT
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- I'm a historian, and I'm experimenting with the use of hypertext
- in the representation of historical complexity. My current project
- is an attempt to represent the cultural and religious traditions
- that converged in the life and thought of the Methodist reformer
- John Wesley (1703-1791). Hypertext links (I'm simply using Windows
- Help as my platform) allow me to develop a multi-threaded narrative
- in which the reader can follow traces representing different cultural
- or religious traditions and their impact on Wesley.
-
- But what if I proceed with this project and want it to be received
- in academe on the level of books that are peer-reviewed, e.g., books
- published by university presses? The document is easy to distribute:
- it's s single pc file. But if I were simply to release it, that would
- be perceived as the equivalent of publishing through a vanity press
- (read: "Instant academic death").
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- Are the precedents, perhaps in other fields than religious studies/
- historical studies, for the development of peer-review networks
- or more general academic publishing networks for hypertext documents
- and studies?
-
- Ted A. Campbell
- Assistant Professor of Church History
- Duke Divinity School
- Durham, NC 27706
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- tcamp@acpub.duke.edu
-