Digital scholarship is the use of digital evidence, methods of inquiry, research, publication and preservation to achieve scholarly and research goals.[1] Digital scholarship can encompass both scholarly communication using digital media and research on digital media. An important aspect of digital scholarship is the effort to establish digital media and social media as credible, professional and legitimate means of research and communication.[2] Digital scholarship has a close association with digital humanities, often serving as the umbrella term for discipline-agnostic digital research methods.
Digital scholarship may also include born-digital means of scholarly communication that are more traditional, like online journals and databases, e-mail correspondence and the digital or digitized collections of research and academic libraries. Since digital scholarship is often concerned with the production and distribution of digital media, discussions about copyright, fair use and digital rights management (DRM) frequently accompany academic analysis of the topic. Combined with open access, digital scholarship is offered as a more affordable and open model for scholarly communication.[3]
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- ^ "The Challenges of Digital Scholarship". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 25 January 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
- ^ Hornby, Amanda; Leslie Bussert. "Digital scholarship and scholarly communication" (PDF). University of Washington Libraries. Retrieved 30 July 2013.