These
new web based technologies are then a necessary, but not sufficient,
condition for a radical opening up of scholarly practice. In this
sense digital scholarship is more than just using information and
communication technologies to research, teach and collaborate, but it
is embracing the open values, ideology and potential of technologies
born of peer-to-peer networking and wiki ways of working in order to
benefit both the academy and society. Digital scholarship can only
have meaning if it marks a radical break in scholarship practices
brought about through the possibilities enabled in new technologies.
This break would encompass a more open form of scholarship.