Bringing arts and humanities perspectives to the redefinition of ” what counts” in research(er) evaluation

In this post on its open humanities blog, DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) presents their views on the European Union's ongoing review of the Future of scholarly publishing and scholarly communication:

"...we argue that the vicious circle  in which research evaluation is lingering can only be broken through a set of urgent and harmonized actions and call for a new social contract between  on the European level involving funders, research performing institutions and their ministries, university networks, disciplinary communities and research infrastructure providers (including publishers)."

( Source: Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, DARIAH Open, https://dariahopen.hypotheses.org/1172)