Resource: Scholarship in the Digital Age
From Lyndsey Twining
| Scholarship in the Digital Age - Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet | |
| Title | Scholarship in the Digital Age - Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet |
|---|---|
| Author/Editor | Borgman, Christine L. |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publisher | MIT Press |
Summary
Discusses how scholarship is changing due to changes in the environment, in particular the new technological possibilities as well as the changes in mindset. There are nine chapters, the first three focusing on the issues and the next five on the problems to be solved.
Useful Content
Table of Contents
- Scholarship at a Crossroads
- Building the Scholarly Infrastructure
- Embedded Everywhere
- The Continuity of Scholarship Communication
- The Discontinuity of Scholarly Publishing
- Data: Input and Output of Scholarship
- Building an Infrastructure for Information
- Disciplines, Documents, and Data
- The View from Here
Review
- Interesting perspectives on "how academia works," in particular, how information is exchanged and reviewed.