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Digital Scholarship

New tools for collaboration

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By seamlessly linking data, knowledge, and scholars, the emerging research environment promises to stimulate and accelerate discovery — and ultimately to fuel advances beyond the realm of scholarship.

The new digital scholarship gives scholars the potential to collaborate in dynamic new ways:

  • It facilitates interdisciplinary approaches to complex questions by breaking down information silos.

  • It enables researchers located across multiple time zones to easily share information and work effectively as teams.

  • It allows the rapid development of new or ad hoc communities of scholars to respond to pressing questions and challenges.

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An information-rich environment
Many of yesterday’s limitations on research and learning are being swept away by the Internet. It presents an opportunity for unlimited dissemination of information at virtually no cost beyond that of providing it to the first reader.
New tools for collaboration
By seamlessly linking data, knowledge, and scholars, the emerging research environment promises to stimulate and accelerate discovery — and ultimately to fuel advances beyond the realm of scholarship.
Funders support sharing
Not surprisingly, governments and funding agencies around the world are recognizing that dissemination of research results is part of the research process itself. Many are implementing or exploring policies to facilitate the sharing of information and realize the benefits of digital scholarship.
Embracing digital scholarship
The opportunities and competitive demands of scholarship in this new environment are here to stay. Practices that made sense in the print environment must now be reconsidered and adapted to the possibilities of digital scholarship.