Review, promotion, and tenure guidelines have been criticized by some as impediments to a transition to open scholarship (see The Film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship and Partner Response to Tri-Agency Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management). The Review, Promotion, and Tenure (RPT) Project analyzes RPT documents from universities in the US and Canada in order to determine how publishing in Open Access (OA) and closed-access venues are incentivized and how this incentivization affects open scholarship.

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Original publication: Winter, Caroline. "The Review, Promotion, and Tenure Project at the ScholCommLab." Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 27 Sep. 2019, https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/the-review-promotion-and-tenure-project-at-the-scholcommlab/.

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