My dept has begun a review of tenure requirements and one of the questions posed is whether (or how) electronic scholarship could become part of the research components of our tenure requirements. Peer review is the cornerstone of qualifying research production and so my colleagues are wondering if there are any established guidelines for peer review of web-based projects, or stand alone applications, that are not published by a traditional publisher. The issue is NOT about e-journals which retain the standard peer review process, but rather projects or applications that do not normally go through standard scholarly evaluations (although they often undergo more severe critique by the Academy in an informal manner).
Has anyone addressed this in their department or university? I am simply looking for some basic guidelines or sustained discussion on how to integrate the kind of research we do on this list, and/or the methods to demonstrate its comparative value to traditional forms of scholarship.
Many thanks Jim