
Other forms of publishing: Creative works
Benefits
- Development of new media opens new opportunities.
- The rise in social media means some formats, like recorded performance, are now far easier to disseminate world wide.
- It is easier to engage a wider audience, beyond academia, and demonstrate public engagement or social impact.
Drawbacks
- Output from research-active performance or live arts departments is often technically complex, multimedia data. Commonly this valuable work is the only remaining trace of ephemeral events, so there are concerns about holding a permanent record.
- It can be difficult to archive and share with others over time, as technical formats change.
- It can be a problem to deposit outputs in institutional repositories, because of the format and size of files.
- Citation counts are difficult to measure.