Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Work

Academic Organisations

American Historical Association

• Draft Guidelines on the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship (post)
• Draft Guidelines on the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship (2015, PDF)

College Art Association (CAA)

• Guidelines for Faculty Teaching in the New Media Arts

The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)

• CCCC Position Statement on Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments
• Tenure and Promotion Cases for Composition Faculty Who Work with Technology
• Tenure and Promotion Cases for Composition Faculty Who Work with Technology

Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (formerly the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada)

• The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada

Modern Language Association

• Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media
• Statement on Electronic Publication  
• Guidelines for Information Technology Access and Support for the Modern Languages
• Special Considerations for Language and Literature: The AAUP Statement on Distance Education
• Guidelines for Authors of Digital Resources  

Departments and Academic Units

Laboratory for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity, Rochester Institute of Technology

• Center Documentation & General Guidelines
• Metrics & Processes for Promotion and Tenure in Interactive Games & Media: A Whitepaper (2009, PDF)
• School of Interactive Games & Media Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure (2013, PDF)

New Media Program at the University of Maine

• MIT Publishes U-Me’s “New Criteria for New Media”
• New Criteria for New Media (2007, white paper)
• Promotion and Tenure Guidelines (2009)

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska – Lincoln

• Promotion & Tenure Criteria for Assessing Digital Research in the Humanities

College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia

• Evaluating Digital Scholarship

Publications

“Closing the Evaluation Gap.” Journal of Digital Humanities. 1.4 (Fall 2012). [full journal issue]

“Evaluating Digital Scholarship.” Profession.(2011): 123 – 201.

Valerie Lee and Cynthia L. Selfe. “Our Capacious Caper: Exposing Print-Culture Bias in Departmental Tenure Documents.” ADE Bulletin 145 (Spring 2008): 51 – 58. [PDF]

Laura Mandell. “Promotion and Tenure for Digital Scholarship.” Open Letter to the Promotion and Tenure Committee at Texas A&M University, Department of English. IDHMC, 2012.