A New Field Study Identifies Eight Major Types of Digital Scholarship

Autor/in	Howard, Jennifer
Titel	A New Field Study Identifies Eight Major Types of Digital Scholarship
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 13, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Web Sites; Electronic Publishing; Scholarship; Information Technology; Computer Mediated Communication; Research Reports; Technology Uses in Education; Layout (Publications) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Web-Design; Elektronisches Publizieren; Scholarships; Stipendium; Informationstechnologie; Computerkonferenz; Research report; Forschungsbericht; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Textgestaltung
Abstract	Innovative digital scholarship now takes place across disciplines, but much digital publishing still operates by the rules of traditional scholarly culture, even as new genres and behaviors are appearing. These are some of the chief findings of a report released on November 10 by the Association of Research Libraries and the Ithaka group, a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the use of information technologies in higher education. The report, "Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication," is based on interviews conducted by "field librarians" with researchers in all disciplines. It describes "a largely unexplored ecosystem" of scholarly behavior in the digital realm. It identifies eight major types of digital scholarly resources: (1) e-journals, which are published in electronic format only; (2) reviews of scholarly works; (3) preprints and working papers; (4) encyclopedias and annotated content; (5) data resources like the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics' Protein Data Bank, a database devoted to protein structures; (6) blogs; (7) discussion forums like e-mail lists; and (8) professional and scholarly hubs, including the Web portals maintained by many scholarly societies. One thing has not changed in the digital environment, concludes the report, is the need to figure out how to stay afloat: "Projects of all sizes are still seeking paths to sustainability." (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10