digital scholarship debate
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For EdMedia 2011 I was part of the keynote debate, looking at recognition of digital scholarshipTRANSCRIPT
This house believes that in the next decade, digital
scholarship (in open journals, blogs, and social media) will achieve the same status in
academic settings as traditional scholarship
The Digital Scholarship
“digital scholarship” =
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Changes in all aspects of scholarly practice as a result of the application of digital, networked and open technologies and associated practices
Same status“same status” = be recognised by peers and officially
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2175042537/
7 converging pressures
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1. Impact
OA articles cited 3 times as much as closed
(MacCallum CJ,Parthasarathy H (2006)
PLoS Biol 4(5)
Blog views outweigh paper downloads
Other media generates good eyeballs
2. Efficiency
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Open course production
Writing
Research networks
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3. Efficacy
The power of a tweet
Open development
Public engagement
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4. complementary
• Journal downloads
• Keynote invites
Social network boosts paper views
Social networks lead to keynote invites
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5. Institutional benefit
Social networks for student recruitment
A trusted voice inthese communities
Can you tweet about this event
for us?
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6. Variety
A book is not just a book
The new conference archive
7. Human Factors
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Competition
Exclusion
Cool
• Creates top-down and bottom-up pressure
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Creates a top-down & bottom-uppressure
• Argument is rarely either/or – overall direction of travel that is important
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Digital scholarship isn’t a
“Then there's cyberbusiness. We're promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We'll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. .. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.”
(http://www.newsweek.com/1995/02/26/the-internet-bah.html )
But it’s more right than wrong…