Modern Language Association CFP

["Hamaker, Charles" <cahamake@uncc.edu>]

The Paradigm Shift in Scholarly Communication: Will Publications 
Perish?

A Collaborative Session Proposed by the CELJ (Council of Editors 
of Learned Journals)  and the American Library Association Los 
Angeles - MLA Convention- Jan. 6-9, 2011.

The scholarly essay, once the coin of the realm in academia, is 
being transformed by digital technologies, which have enabled 
instant and open access through electronic publishing.  This 
revolution has changed the landscape of every aspect of scholarly 
publishing.  The transformation has been so rapid and so 
dramatic, that there has been very little opportunity to assess, 
adjust, and respond to the impact on scholarly communication. 
The very question about the future viability of learned journals, 
to say nothing of practices such as peer review, confronts us all 
as professionals who rely on the integrity of discourse.  This 
session is an effort to deal with those questions directly and 
initiate a dialogue about how various branches of the scholarly 
community (editors, authors, publishers, and librarians) can 
respond to ongoing and inevitable challenges.

Submit - 1 page proposal for a roundtable exchange to Alan Rauch 
(arauch@uncc.edu) by March 15, 2010.

(Participants MUST be members of the MLA.)

ALAN RAUCH
President - Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Department of English
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Boulevard
Charlotte, NC 28223

arauch@uncc.edu
http://alanrauch.com