Abstract
While Digital Humanities (DH) projects and publications have flourished in recent years in terms of both overall quantity and the variety of innovative platforms used to host them, the vast majority of DH projects and publications are not being discovered easily by the broader research community. Recently published data found that 82% of all published humanities articles never get cited at all. (Larivière, 2022) Adoption of FAIR data principles (data that are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) have not been widely implemented across the field of DH for a variety of technical and broader scholarly publishing barriers. For example, DH projects are frequently hosted using a variety of platforms including WordPress, Omeka, and other proprietary software. Additionally, unlike in the field of health sciences, a publically-owned, gold-standard journal indice such as PubMed does not currently exist for DH publications. Despite these challenges, librarians have created emerging library services meant to help counter the discoverability crisis currently impacting the broader DH field. This poster highlights several innovative services and projects that are aiming to increase the discoverability, citeability, and preservation of DH projects, publications, and data. Innovative projects will be covered that are: minting persistent identifiers such as DOIs to better facilitate the discoverability and citeability of DH projects, indexing DH projects in broad multidisciplinary databases such as Google Scholar with the help of institutional repositories, and ensuring the long-term accessibility of DH projects by utilizing web archiving technology.
Presenters
Benjamin SaraccoAssociate Professor in the Library, Rowan University Libraries and Cooper Medical School, Rowan University, New Jersey, United States
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Presentation Type
Theme
2023 Special Focus—Literary Landscapes: Forms of Knowledge in the Humanities
KEYWORDS
Digital preservation, Digital Humanities discoverability, Scholarly communications, FAIR principles
