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This article discusses the extensive nature of scholarly publishing. He explains the industry in terms of a social contract between the supply side, publication, and the demand side, the consumers. The supply side of this contract has enjoyed large growth recently, with the continued growth of digital outlets, while the demand side has remained stationary, maintaining its view of the book as the definitive form of publication. In conclusion, the author argues that curation will solve this problem, and become more important that publication once publication ceases to be limited.

This article expands on the subjects discussed in Dan Cohen's earlier article on The Social Contract of Scholarly Publishing. He breaks the supply and demand model, introduced in the previous article, into four influential categories that need focus to better both sides. He argues for impartiality when approaching a text, passion for the subject, shame for the lack of sharing compared to other fields, and the shift from narcissistic desires for compensation to a desire for communal knowledge.

This article about the 2011 Digital Humanities meeting highlights three big project announcements from that meeting. The first of these was a then new grant program: Digital Humanities Implementation Grants, a follow up to the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. The second of these was a collection of alternative academic careers for humanities scholars titled #alt-academy. The last of these was the introduction of Press Forward, an initiative aiming to fuse traditional scholarly review with open-web filters.

Phil Davis, the writer of this impact entry, questions the sustainability of, what he calls, AO Mega Journals. AO Megas are journals that have no real content area to focus on, are generally open access, and prove an alternative to traditional publication. He believes that the impact factors and decline in citations of the site may cause concern for people looking to publish their work. He also addresses the issue of smaller, more meticulous, and content focused journals. This article was written in 2010, and although PLoS One didn't experience the slow deflation of the "citation bubble," (it is still considered the larges scholarly journal), he makes good points on the adavantages and disadvantages of using the "large blob."

With a book about Academia and its issues being faced today, Kathleen Fitzpatrick (director of Scholarly Communications for MLA) brings to question the adaptation education has to take in order to thrive including that of technology. Her blog orientated around her book gives specific to general Digital Humanities example in a theoretical aspect.

This website is, as its title suggests, a directory of open access journals. These journals are free, full text, quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals that cover a wide range of subjects. It features search fields for both journals and articles, with the ability to search by title, ISSN, author, keywords, and abstract.

Exquisite Corpora is a Tumblr page created by the Harvard metaLAB. The participants are to be in teams of three and craft a detailed abstract for a proposal to a scholarly press based on the genre, platform, and audience cards that they received at the metaLAB grad school. Each one Includes one piece of media (an image, audio file, video, interactive piece, etc.) that illustrates their concept. They have 45 minutes to research, discuss, and compose their proposals before they upload it to the Tumblr. These are similar to the lightning talks we discussed in class.

This blog addresses the challenges with scholarly research that are faced when discussing 18th and 19th British women writers. One challenge is that how is it decided what information is being included in the archive and how accurate is it. Not all digital archives have equal access; this gives a disadvantage for people's research because they do not have access to all the information they need. She answers how to make digital humanities more accurate and how it can be used in a classroom through many different professors prospectives.

In this article a group of researchers are asked to describe the function that their blogs will serve to them and researchers that are going to viewing their blogs. These researchers blogs are motivated by the possibility to share knowledge, aid creativity and provide a feeling of being connected in their research. Ultimately the analysis brings out the blog's combination of function and possibility it offers to each multiple audience.

The ARL is a nonprofit organization of 125 research entities in the US and Canada. The Association promotes the advancement of its members in various ways, but focuses on ideals often associated with the digital humanities, such as intellectual freedom, scholarly communication, and collaboration.

This article describes the end to Microsoft's Live Seach Team. This team has indexed the contents of 750,000 books and 80 million scholarly journals. The project scanned books and put them into a database that allowed the contents to come up in a diiferent area online when the content was being searched for. This effort comes as a dissappointment due to its ending of the project.

The two annoted biblographies present in this publication document sparks future discussions toward the activity of modeling the social edition. THis annotated biblography first explores reading devices, tools and social media issues and second, social networking tools for professional readers in the Humanities.

the article summarizes the principles of analysis and compares the potentioal with the digital tools. This article gives a textual comparison of several kinds of search for texts though different archives and programs for a new method of analysis.

Journalist Angelyn Irvin of the Daily Pennsylvanian covers a story about the Digital Humanities Forum (DHF) and about digital humanities as a general topic. One main goal of DHF is to essentially produce a better way to share information between those in technology and scholarly work. This forum is still in it's beginning phases, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation until the year 2014. The people helping funnel this project are professors, scholars, and students.

This short article is about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's initiative for digital humanities supported by the Center for Digital Research of the Humanities. This new push for digital humanities has opened many new positions for scholarly pursuit and research at the school, which helps to open jobs and boost the economy.

Cohen blogs about the emergence of several new ways of publishing within the scientific field that is still considered scholarly and many times peer reviewed. Some of the websites mentioned offer to publish a writer's work for a lifetime, for a few dollars. The emergence of these self-publishing, academic, scientific sites also shows a slight shift in philosophy. By restricting the publication through certain channels, the publishing companies and universities were choosing what will be the topic "of next year." Some times they were right, sometimes they were wrong, but either way, great and important papers were lost because they were not considered "the next big thing" or they are too "normal."

Open Library is an editable library catalog that is aiming to digitize every book ever published. Any user has the ability to contribute information and make corrections to the catalog. This project allows for the exploration of texts for scholarly or everyday purposes. Much like some archives that we have looked at, this website is a much larger site that wants all books available online.

This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. These projects help us better understand the central problems in the humanities, and they also raise new questions in the humanities which help develop new digital applications and approaches for the use in the humanities. The digital humanities Implementation Grants programs seeks to identify projects that have successfully completed their startup phase and are well positioned to have a major impact. These grants involve, Implementation of computationally bases methods or techniques for humanities research; implantation of new digital tools for use in humanities research; implementation of new digital tools for use in humanities research, public programming, or educational settings; efforts to ensure the completion and long-term sustainability of existing digital resources; studies that examine the philosophical or practical implications of the use of emerging technologies in specific fields or disciplines of the humanties, or in interdisciplinary collaborations involving several fields or disciplines; or implementation of new digital modes of scholarly communication that facilitate peer review, collaboration, or the dissemination of humanities scholarship for various audiences.

CNI's focus is to transfer scholarship into the digital age. It states that it is made of 200 institutions from universities, publishing, and libraries that must pay membership dues. CNI is supported soley through the membership dues. IT encourages collaboration throughout its own community as well as outside of it.

This article specifically analyzes the growth of digital humanities and divides it's lifespan into four parts: Computer Centers (late 1940s through the present), Scholarly Societies and Journals (mid-1960s through the present), Standards efforts (late 1980s to present), Library Digitization & Digital Humanities Centers (1990s to present.) The author dissects what occurs in each time frame beginning with Father Busa's 1949 St. Thomas Aquinas index to the creation of the Blake Archive in 2005.