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

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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…