Digital Scholarship – rethinking educational scholarship in the digital world

PADLs: supporting digital scholarship in digital libraries

This paper introduces digital scholarship: aprocess inwhich individuals perform all scholarly work electronically, working entirely with digital media. A proposal is made for patron-augmenteddigital libraries (PADLs): a class of digital libraries designed to support the digital scholarship of its patrons. PADLs not only provide facilities for search and retrieval of library artefacts, but also ...

Emergency Medicine Scholarship in the Digital Age

How do scholars communicate in 2016 and beyond? Is the traditional journal being marginalized by digital communication? How many of us get the majority of our information from a paper page? When an emergency medicine (EM) scholar has an idea, an innovation, or an important synthesis of existing information, is it appropriate to disseminate this several months later in a traditional print journa...

Review: Scholarship in the Digital Age

Preservation of Scholarship: The Digital Dilemma

The Problem Jeff Rothenberg, a computer scientist at Rand, has written, “Digital documents last forever—or five years, whichever comes first.” He explains that digital documents dependent on obsolete hardware or software to run are hostage to their own encoding. They become unreadable unless they are “refreshed”— copied onto new, updated media—with disturbing frequency. Librarians started to re...

In Focus: Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy

ion of Knowledge. The tradition of modern scholarship—now some centuries old—has tended to favor the abstraction of knowledge from action in order to develop explicit rather than tacit knowledge. From the Renaissance onwards, knowledge (in books, libraries, and journals, that is, “objective” knowledge in Popper’s sense) was radically separated from knowing subjects. This unleashed the growth of...