This is the third post in a seven-part series in which we will share some of the results of our survey for scholars with you.
In our recent Faculty Survey, the third aspect of the LCRM project that we asked for the scholars’ input on was the idea of “community publications.” Community publications would contain all of the enhancements of multilayered publications (additional asides from the authors, additional sidebars, and links to multimedia primary sources used by the authors that are available on the internet), but they would go a step further by providing a space for conversations and communities to develop around the work to keep the conversation started by the author going after the work has been published. Once again we asked scholars if they were interested in writing or using community publications. Only 56% of the 284 respondents were interested in authoring a community publication, but 82% of the 284 respondents were interested in using community publications.