Evaluating digital scholarship and digital humanities research for promotion and tenure is still in active debate. Below is a list of guidelines and resources on peer review and promotion and tenure:
DS/DH Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
- ACH Guidelines for Assessment of Digital Scholarship in Tenure and Promotion
- MLA: Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media
- AHA: Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in History
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Promotion & Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities
- Memorandum From The Emory College Humanities Council Regarding The Evaluation Of Digital Scholarship
- Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History
Peer Review
- DH Commons: Review Guidelines
- Review Process for Reviews in DH
- Basic Principles for Modernist Networks Peer Review
- Towards a Peer Review of GeoHumanities Projects
- 18thConnect: DH Peer Review
- Nines: 19th century DH scholarship peer review
- McClurken, Jeffrey. Revised Digital History Review Guidelines
- ADA Review Process
Readings
- The Editors. "Closing the Evaluation Gap." Special Issue of JDH. Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall 2012
- Anderson, Steve and Tara McPherson. "Engaging Digital Scholarship: Thoughts on Evaluating Multimedia Scholarship," 2011. Profession, MLA.
- Bartanen, Kristine M. "Digital Scholarship and the Tenure and Promotion Process," 2014. The Academic Commons.
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "Peer Review, Judgment, and Reading," 2011. Profession, MLA.
- Nowviskie, Bethany. "Where Credit is Due: Preconditions for the Evaluation of Collaborative Digital Scholarship," 2011. Profession, MLA.
- McGann, Jerome. "On Creating a Usable Future," 2011. Profession, MLA.
- Presner, Todd. "How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship," 2011. Journal of Digital Humanities.
- Rockwell, Geoffrey. "On the Evaluation of Digital Media as Scholarship," 2011. Profession, MLA.