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These articles and reports dealing with digital scholarship have been pulled from a variety of sources on the Web and may be useful when writing grant proposals for digital projects.

Nature of and Problems in Digital Scholarship

• Humanities 2.0: Promise, Perils, Predictions, Cathy N. Davidson. PMLA, Vol. 123, No. 3, May 2008: p. 707-171.
• Doing Much More Than We Have So Far Attempted, Don Waters. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 5 (September/October 2007): 8-9. - Identifies strategic issues in scholarship: Aggregation for Discovery and Research, Discipline-Based Informatics, New Publication Emphases
• Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities (BVREH), University of Oxford. 2006.
• Summit on Digital Tools for the Humanities: Final Report, University of Virginia. Published May 2006; Summit took place September 2005.
• A Multi-Dimensional Framework for Academic Support, University of Minnesota. 2005.

Digital Resources and Tools in Scholarship: Practice and Effects

• Social Scholarship, ed. Debbie Abilock and Shannon Bomar. Knowledge Quest, vol. 37, no. 4 (March/April 2009)
• The Next Generation of Academics: A Report on a Study Conducted at the University of Rochester, Ryan Randall, Jane Smith, Katie Clark, Nancy Fried Foster. September 17, 2008.
• Curricular Uses of Visual Materials: A Mixed-Method Institutional Study, Carleton College. August 2008.
• Microsoft Rolls out Publishing and Research Tools for Academics, Peter Monaghan. The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 31, 2008.
• Developing the Capacity and Skills to Support eResearch, Margaret Henty. Adriadne, Issue 55, April 2008.
• A Sociologist Says Students Aren't So Web-Wise After All, Catherine Rampell. The Chronicle of Higher Education - The Wired Campus, April 29, 2008.
• Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure and the Internet, Christine L. Borgman. October 2007.
• Summary Report of the Scholarly Assets Management Initial Exploratory Group, MINDS@UW. October 25, 2007.
• Use and Users of Digital Resources, Diane Harley. EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2007.
• Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), April 5, 2006.
• Navigating Course Materials in Unique Ways, University of California, Los Angeles. February 2005.
• How geography professors select materials for classroom lectures: implications for the design of digital libraries, International Conference on Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, 2004.

Scholarly Communication and the Library

• Future of Scholarly Communication, Center for Studies in Higher Education (CHSE). Ongoing.
• Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication: Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka for the Association of Research Libraries (pdf). November 2008.
• Establishing a Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication: A Call for Community Engagement, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). November 2007.
• Publishing Needs and Opportunities at the University of California, Catherine H. Candee, Lynne Withey, University of California Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Committee (SLASIAC). October 2007.
• University Publishing in a Digital Age: Social Commentary on the Ithaka Report. July 26, 2007.
• The State of Scholarly Publishing in the History of Art and Architecture, Lawrence McGill. Rice University Press, September 21, 2006.
• Scholarly Communication: Academic Values and Sustainable Models, Center for Studies in Higher Education (CHSE). July 27, 2006.
• Scholarly Work and the Shaping of Digital Access, Carole L. Palmer. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2005.

Case Studies

• Case studies: The Henry III Fine Rolls Project, AHRC ICT Methods Network.
• Nietzsche on New Paths: The HyperNietzsche Project and Open Scholarship on the Web, Paolo D'Iorio.
• TextGrid as a Digital Ecosystem (pdf), Digital EcoSystems and Technologies Conference 2007, Univ. of Appl. Sci. Worms, Worms. 21-23 Feb. 2007.

Business Models for Digital Scholarship

• ODH update: CLIR Releases "A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States", National Endowment for the Humanities. June 2008.
• IT Engagement in Research - Key Findings (pdf), Harvey Blustain, Sandra Braman, Richard N. Katz, Gail Salaway. EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR), July 2006.
• EPIC: Online Use and Cost Evaluation Project findings, Columbia University. September 2004.

   

Cyberinfrastructure

• Things to Do While Waiting for the Future to Happen: Building Cyberinfrastructure for the Liberal Arts (pdf), David Green & Michael Roy. Educause, July/August 2008.
• Towards the Australian Data Commons: A Proposal for an Australian National Data Service, Platforms for Collaboration. May 21, 2008.
• Interedition: an international initiative for digital scholarly editing infrastructure. 2007.
• Our Cultural Commonwealth: The final report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities (pdf), American Council on Learned Societies (ACLS). 2006.
• NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for the Social Sciences 2005: Final Report, San Diego Supercomputer Center. May 12, 2005.
• Report of the National Science Foundation Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure. 2003.

Journals

• Into the Blogosphere - Rhetoric, Community and Culture of Weblogs
• K A I R O S - A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy