In February 28's Humanist, Ian Lancashire reports his amazed discovery of the figures on the capacity of doctoral institutions to assess e-articles and e-monographs as reported in the Dec 2006 Modern Language Association's Report on Tenure and Promotion (executive summary at http://www.mla.org/pdf/tenure_summary.pdf).

There, Lancashire discovered that 40.8% of doctoral institutions "have no experience in evaluating e-articles, and 65.7% have no experience in evaluating e-monographs."

One of the recommendations of the report that Lancashire highlights is a "more capacious conception of scholarship." The report further urges institutions to recognize the "legitimacy of scholarship produced in new media."