At the heart of digital scholarship are universal questions, lessons, and principles relating both to the mission of higher education and the shared values that make an academic library culture. But while global in aspirations, digital scholarship starts with local culture drawn from the community. Editors Chin Roemer and Kern invite you into their institutional workspace, the University of Washington, gathering voices from a range of positions that speak to the facets of digital scholarship. This mosaic of perspectives reveals the challenges, questions, and personalities that sit at the nexus of academic libraries and digital scholarship culture. Reflecting on UW’s approach, you’ll gain insights for your own institution on topics such as

• ways to create awareness of digital services through training;
• supporting students as creators of content;
• blending existing analog collections with ongoing digital initiatives using a media lab;
• creating a campus-wide, discipline agnostic, data repository service;
• how a popular digital storytelling workshop spawned digital scholarship across campus;
• digital scholarship consultations, viewed from an instructional technologist’s approach;
• the place of digital scholarship in the fabric of a revitalized urban community;
• four strategies for teaching research skills within an online-only bachelor’s degree program; and
• assessment findings from focus groups, surveys, digital pedagogy projects, and Omeka case studies.

By thoroughly exploring a single institution, this unique volume elucidates the many ways in which digital scholarship can express the values, priorities, opportunities, and challenges of the community’s intellectual and technical environment.

Many in the world of scholarship share the conviction that open access will be the engine of transformation leading to more culture, more research, more discovery, and more solutions to small and big problems. This collection brings together librarians, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and thinkers to take measure of the open access movement. The editors meld critical essays, research, and case studies to offer an authoritative exploration of

• the concept of openness in scholarship, with an overview of how it is evolving in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia;
• open access publishing, including funding models and the future of library science journals;
• the state of institutional repositories;
• Open Educational Resources (OER) at universities and a consortium, in subject areas ranging from literary studies to textbooks; and
• open science, open data, and a pilot data catalog for raising the visibility of protected data.

Tackles what failure, in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity, means for the digital humanities community.

Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavor. This is especially true for digital scholarship, as the everyday risk of failure is compounded by the challenges of interdisciplinary research and the fragility of digital technology.

Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary, and international group of scholars and practitioners who each offer short personal and professional reflections on the failed, broken, or challenging aspects of scholarly practice. It provides a critical perspective on the ways institutional and material conditions are intractably linked to approaches to digital research and how those conditions differ within and across national contexts.

In creating a critical, constructive, and compassionate vocabulary for failure, this book normalizes failure as an object of inquiry, asking what value exists in failure in digital scholarship and how we can create the space to fail better.