Create Change
Shouldn't the way we share research be as advanced as the Internet?
Cases in Point
A look at the diverse paths change is taking
Scholars in the many disciplines comprising knowledge have been described as “tribes”, acknowledging their widely varying traditions and norms. So it is no surprise that changes in how scholarship is conducted and communicated are playing out in different ways in different fields. Here is a look at some of the overarching themes, visions, and examples of developments in selected fields.
New forms of scholarship are emerging from the possibilities of the digital networked environment. Here are a few examples.
As scholarship has become increasingly data-intensive — the result of digital technologies and networks — it is important to ensure that many types of digital data can be reused for purposes that go well beyond those for which they were collected.
Journal articles, once available only to subscribers and “authorized users,” increasingly are becoming freely available on the web.
Scholarship is driven not just by intellectual curiosity and funding availability. It is also about the rewards that come to scholars for their work. Promotion and tenure opportunities are an important part of this equation.
Scholarship without barriers
What kinds of advances are possible in an environment in which scholarly communication is more open than even before? Leading scholars talk about the future of digital scholarship in their fields.
Daniel Ferreras is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at West Virginia University. He specializes in Spanish and French modern literature, popular and marginal narrative genres, and literary theory
Carolyn Kenny is a professor of human development and indigenous studies in the Antioch University Ph.D. in Leadership and Change.
Professor Linda Hutcheon was appointed to the University of Toronto Department of English in 1988, having previously been an associate of the university’s Centre for Comparative Literature since 1980.
David R. Morrison is a professor of mathematics and physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Gordon Henry Guyatt is a physician and professor of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
Gary Ward, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Vermont, received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.
The late Roy Rosenzweig was professor of history and new media at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and Founder of the Center for History and New Media.
Martin J. Osborne is a professor of economics at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on game theory and its applications.
Leslie Pack Kaelbling is professor of computer science and engineering and a research director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Zhigang Suo is the Allen E. and Marilyn M. Puckett professor of mechanics and materials at Harvard University.
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