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Heather Morrison has released a draft of her doctoral thesis Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age.

Harvard took a DASH toward opening access to its scholarship this week (Aug. 31). DASH stands for Digital Access to Scholarship. It's an open-access repository of scholarly works administered by the University Library. So far, more than 350 members of the

see the bibliography, too

Digitization of text corpora can impede the progress of scholarship if done without proper focus on reflecting the methodologies and intellectual practices of actual scholarship practices...

A report from the Council of Library and Information Resources. Featured chapters include "Can a library go all-digital?" and "the cost of keeping a book"

Open Science Summit, which took place in July at Berkeley, is a good example of how "digital scholarship", "e-science" and "open science" and "scholarly communications" are terms from the same vocabulary we are creating to talk about the changes in academia, knowledge transfer, innovation, etc.

Discusses the prospects and limitations of digitial scholarship, particularly the for-profit nature of scholarly publishing and faculty resistance to new models

The Journal of Digital Humanities is a comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal that features the best scholarship, tools, and conversations produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter.

a model for a tool registry for digital scholarship?

a variety of digital scholarship issues addressed, including reproducibility of escience (data + methods)

Bibliometric and usage-based analyses and tools highlight the value of information about scholarship contained within the network of authors, articles and usage data. Less progress has been made on populating and using the author side of this network than the article side, in part because of the difficulty of unambiguously identifying authors. I briefly review a sample of author identifier schemes, and consider use in scholarly repositories. I then describe preliminary work at arXiv to implement public author identifiers, services based on them, and plans to make this information

Eric Mazur and others - consider inviting to the 2011 Harvard Digital Scholarship Seminar

"Long-term preservation and stewardship of scientific data and research-related information are vitally important to future science and scholarship. Scientific data archives can offer capabilities for managing and preserving disciplinary and interdisciplinary data for research, education, and decision-making activities of future communities of users. Meeting the requirements for a trusted digital repository will help to ensure that today's collections of scientific data will be available in the future. A continuing self-assessment of a long-term archive for interdisciplinary scientific data is being conducted to identify the additional steps needed for it to become a trustworthy repository. Recommendations include a strategy for collaborative organizational sustainability, a model for submission and workflow to ingest interdisciplinary scientific data into a repository, and a plan for facilitating intra-organizational transfer between repositories."

A new way to define "digital scholarship" as a family of digital forms of scholarly communication (rather than e-science or e-social science, etc.)

many sessions with implications for digital scholarship and new forms of scholarly communications

seems not many libraries are involved in RDS yet

Abstrat: "Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. Taking the resilience metaphor from ecology, the authors propose a framework for analysing an institution's ability to adapt to digital challenges. This framework is examined at two institutions (the UK Open University and Canada's Athabasca University) using two current digital challenges, namely Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access publishing."