Digital Scholarship: What is Digital Scholarship?

Digital scholarship is supporting teaching, learning, and research using digital sources, methods, and tools.

Rumsey, A. (July 2011) “New-model scholarly communication: Road map for change,” Scholarly Communication Institute 9. University of Virginia Library. https://uvasci.org/institutes-2003-2011/SCI-9-Road-Map-for-Change.pdf

Schnell, E. (March 2014) "Scholarly communication: The future." https://u.osu.edu/schnell.9/tag/digital-scholarship/

1.) Publishing: 

Digital scholarship is... connecting researchers to digital tools to help them create content, and dissemination of digital research to cultivate a community of practice.

2.) Educating:

Digital scholarship is... connecting researchers with digital sources, enabling digital use and reuse of scholarship, and advocating for scholarship that is open to all.

3.) Preservation: 

Digital scholarship is... digital curation and management in support of the full research lifecycle.

Traditionally, have libraries provided content for researchers acting as consumers. Librarians instruct patrons on how to find information, how to evaluate it, and how to use it ethically and competently. Library content ranges from commercial products (such as books and journals) and openly available resources to, increasingly, local scholarly output in various formats.

Now, libraries have the opportunity to participate in the scholarly research cycle through partnerships with researchers to produce content that contributes to the scholarly record. Digital Scholarship allows for new forms of knowledge creation, evaluation, and discoverability that add value to the traditional library functions.