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Scholarly Communications

A brief overview of the field of Scholarly Communication.

Digital Scholarship

Digital scholarship is a broad, interdisciplinary field that includes computationally engaged research and pedagogy, and digital publication. The field integrates traditional scholarly methods with new and newly emerging technologies to question and investigate traditional scholarly paradigms and utilize new methods of working.

Researchers and students interested in digital or open scholarship are prepared to integrate scholarly methodologies with technological skills.  Examples include open publishing, community-engaged research, text analysis, data mining, visualization, modeling and simulation, geospatial analysis and mapping, multi-modal storytelling, network analysis, and mark-up. (UW Libraries, n.d. https://www.lib.washington.edu/digitalscholarship)

Guiding Questions

Consider these activities and what questions will guide your exploration into digital scholarship.

 

DS guiding questions

How to Engage

There are many ways to engage with digital scholarship. What follows are just a handful of examples that can help get you started.

  • Doing Work in New Ways
  • Finding Community
    • Professional Organizations:- HASTAC, DHSI, THATCamp
    • Social Media/Technology - Twitter (#DLFTeach, #DH, #openscience), Slack, podcasts
    • Scholarly Identity - ORCiD
  • Contributing and Engaging
    • Partnering with local institutes or organizations
    • Campus partners
  • Using New Products
  • Creating New Products
    • Teaching - open textbooks, curricular materials, open course design
    • Research/Scholarship - software development, interactive publishing platforms