The Advisory Committee for the MLA International Bibliography in collaboration with the Libraries and Research Forum is organizing a panel for MLA 2016 in Austin, TX (January 7-10, 2016) on the evolving scholarly record. New scholarly methods create new kinds of scholarship, raising questions about the nature of the scholarly record itself as well as the structures, institutions, and practices needed to maintain the record for its publics.
For more information on this topic, see the following article: http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2014/oclcresearch-evolving-scholarly-record-2014-overview.html