[Air-L] Citing from a Kindle

[Stuart Shulman]

scholarship is changing...and in many ways it isn't

some scholars are at the technological bleeding edge...and many are not

routines and gatekeeper practices are shifting...but not for everyone

new things count for promotion & tenure...and some places they simply do not

What does this transitional condition mean for citation?

To the best of your ability, with the lowest transaction cost for the
readers, reviewers & editors, you must help us validate your citations when
we choose to do so. Old school conventions need to be obeyed, for now, until
new ones are more firmly established. Early adopters of new conventions
beware (but thank-you!) as you will need to use them, for now, only to
augment old conventions.

Users of eBooks should comment regularly to makers of eBooks about the need
for meta data options in the reader screen.

Five to seven years from know, the current citation paradigm will be gone;
dust in the wind. A more hypertext-driven social annotation/citation
paradigm will emerge in e-journals so that anytime you see a quotation you
will be able to click on it and see abundant meta data for the quote or
citation, as well as the inventory of ways in which that cited item has been
used in your discipline and more generally.

The best book I have read on the general subject: Everything is
Miscellaneous by David Weinberger


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Stuart Shulman
President & CEO
Texifter, LLC <http://www.texifter.com/>


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