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Achieving due recognition for web scholarship: Experience at a structural biology education website
Author(s) -
Rhodes Gale
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
biochemistry and molecular biology education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1539-3429
pISSN - 1470-8175
DOI - 10.1002/bmb.2005.49403305372
Subject(s) - scholarship , documentation , world wide web , web resource , computer science , value (mathematics) , library science , political science , machine learning , law , programming language
Peer‐evaluation committees are now faced with assessing the scholarly value of World Wide Web resources such as tutorials, databases, dictionaries, and computation services. How should these activities be weighted in comparison with publications in research or education journals or presentations at meetings? Clearly, nontraditional scholarship requires nontraditional documentation. In this article, I tell how I have documented my structural biology web resources for peer evaluation and how my colleagues have responded.