It’s not really news that electronic publishing is wrecking havoc on the traditional publishing industry. In fact, it’s such old news, that I feel a little funny even writing a post about epublishing. But this past weekend, it became clear to me just how doomed academic publishers are. What happened to finally convince me that…
Tag: Digital Scholarship
Zotero 2.0
[This post originally appeared in the blog hist.net.] Zotero 2.0 became available for public download on May 14. This new version of Zotero provides many exciting features that unlock the research archives of individual scholars making those research archives (or portions of those archives) available for a wider audience. Think about it this way. In…
Should Grants Count?
Not long ago I wrote a series of posts about digital scholarship and whether or not digital work should “count” in the classic sense of counting on American college campuses, i.e., for promotion and tenure. Because digital scholarship is very difficult to pull off without external funding, it’s a reasonable question whether or not writing…
Digital Campus on Digital Scholarship
As a follow up to my series on making digital scholarship count, Tom, Dan, and I spent some time discussing the issue on Digital Campus this week. If you’ve been following my series, then I think you’ll enjoy our discussion because Dan and Tom offer some very interesting and contrasting perspectives on the issues I…