Tenure and promotion in the age of online social media

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gruzd, Anatoliy ^a   Staves, Kathleen ^a   Wilk, Amanda ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information and communication technology (ICT); Information dissemination; Online social media (OSM); Scholarly practices; Tenure and promotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861420864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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