With a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences took on the task of examining these questions and others in this report, “Large-Scale Research Projects and the Humanities.” The Federation drew upon three major sources for this work: the expertise and input from a representative group of humanities and s [...] II The Nature of Humanities Research In exploring the nature of humanities research, we encounter the risk of over-simplifying and magnifying the differences between the humanities and social sciences. [...] In the humanities, and in some social sciences, collaboration may manifest itself not in co-authorship but in acknowledgements.1 The importance of the process of writing to the overall research process in the humanities goes a long way to explaining some of the resistance to co-authorship as a means to recognizing some types of research contributions. [...] For the humanist, the form the writing takes, the choice of language, and the literary style of the piece are all part of the scholarship and can be very individual. [...] Read in the light of the findings of the MCRI performance report, the balance between interdisciplinary and disciplinary, sole-authored and joint-authored, publications in MCRI projects may reflect more than simply a reaction to the realities of the academic rewards system.
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