Digital Scholarship
Introduction
At the U-M Library, “digital scholarship” is a broad term that applies to a range of scholarly activities. Many researchers will be familiar with the term "digital humanities," but digital scholarship is often used in libraries to refer to digital research and teaching that is discipline agnostic.
When we talk about the library's support for digital scholarship, we are thinking about how we support research and teaching that relies on digital evidence, the use of digital methods to answer research questions, and the use of digital tools for creating, authoring, and publishing. We also include digital curation and preservation, digital use and reuse of scholarship, and digital pedagogy. Digital scholarship can be any form of research or pedagogy that involves digital tools.
Digital scholarship may make use of participatory culture, open source tools, and Open Access, while also working towards greater transparency and ethics. Our work in the library relies on people, as well as information and data, various digital tools, methods, platforms, and infrastructures.
This guide provides a basic introduction to finding digital scholarship tools, communities, and support. Curious about digital scholarship, have an idea, or are stuck on how to get started? Contact the library's digital scholarship experts at library-ds@umich.edu with any questions.
How to use this guide
This guide provides a basic introduction to finding digital scholarship tools, communities, and support.
Curious about digital scholarship, have an idea, or are stuck on how to get started? You can check out the Intro to Digital Scholarship workshop facilitated by the library's digital scholarship experts and the workshops on digital scholarship tools and methods offered through the Teaching and Technology Collaborative for this year.
You can also contact the team at library-ds@umich.edu with any questions or schedule a consultation.
Introductory Reading on Digital Scholarship
- Digital Scholarship on WikipediaA general introduction to digital scholarship and its development, relation to digital humanities and other discipline-specific research created using digital tools.
Digital Scholarship by ISBN: 9780789036889Publication Date: 2008-12-12Digital Scholarship details both challenges and proven solutions in establishing, maintaining, and servicing digital scholarship in the humanities. This volume further explores the ways in which the humanities have benefited from the ability to digitize text and page images of historic documents, mine large corpuses of texts and other forms of records, and assemble widely dispersed cultural objects into common repositories for comparison and analysis--making new research questions and methods possible for the first time.
Open Praxis, Open Access by ISBN: 9780838918678Publication Date: 2020-06-03This collection brings together librarians, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and thinkers to take measure of the open access movement. The editors meld critical essays, research, and case studies to offer an authoritative exploration of the concept of openness in scholarship, with an overview of how it is evolving in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia; open access publishing, including funding models and the future of library science journals; the state of institutional repositories; Open Educational Resources (OER) at universities and a consortium, in subject areas ranging from literary studies to textbooks; and open science, open data, and a pilot data catalog for raising the visibility of protected data. This landmark collection will help readers understand the open access movement, open data, open educational resources, open knowledge, and the opportunities for an open and transformed world they promise.
Debates in the Digital Humanities by ISBN: 9781452963785Publication Date: 2019Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 collects a broad array of important, thought-provoking perspectives on the field’s many sides. With a wide range of subjects including gender-based assumptions made by algorithms, the place of the digital humanities within art history, and data-based methods for exhuming forgotten histories, it assembles a who’s who of the field in more than thirty impactful essays.
Disrupting the Digital Humanities by ISBN: 9781947447714Publication Date: 2018“Disrupting the Digital Humanities seeks to rethink how we map disciplinary terrain by directly confronting the gatekeeping impulse of many other so-called field-defining collections.This collection works to push and prod at the edges of the Digital Humanities — to open the Digital Humanities rather than close it down. This collection does not constitute yet another reservoir for the new Digital Humanities canon. Rather, its aim is less about assembling content as it is about creating new conversations.”- Digital Humanities QuarterlyDigital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. DHQ is published by the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
