December 10, 2013
Stop the Presses: Is the monograph headed toward an e-only future?
Stop the Presses: Is the monograph headed toward an e-only future?
Can we expect the print monograph to disappear anytime soon?
While the road to a fully digital future for scholarly monographs is not clearly in sight, the widespread availability of ebooks is already transforming researchers’ reading habits. As librarians and publishers consider their options, they must take into account how the usage behavior of academics is evolving. In this Issue Brief, Roger Schonfeld explores the challenges and possibilities if we “Stop the Presses Read More...
October 28, 2013
MOOCs in the Classroom?
Rebecca Griffiths explores an intriguing and potentially high impact application of online learning: MOOCs in the Classroom?
What happens when faculty are encouraged to adapt MOOCs intended for large global audiences for use in traditional classroom settings and curriculum? Can this “off label use” bring benefits like improved learning outcomes or the ability to educate more students in a given course? How can institutions make informed, evidence-based choices about the use of these technology enabled courses on their own campuses?
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October 28, 2013
Rebecca J. Griffiths
August 29, 2013
“The Space Between:” Our latest Ithaka S+R Issue Brief pinpoints where US faculty members and UK academics diverge and asks why?
The well-known Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey expanded beyond US faculty members in 2012 to include academics in the UK. We now have a fascinating window for assessing a variety of aspects of national higher education systems, affording us the opportunity to examine their comparative positioning and to consider a variety of possible policy interventions.
Interested? Download “The Space Between”
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August 01, 2013
"Can't Buy Us Love:" Rick Anderson kicks off new Ithaka S+R Issue Briefs series
The use of large, comprehensive collections of printed books and journals has seen a massive decline at North American research libraries in recent years—an effect of the shift in scholarly publishing from an analog and print-based model to a digital and networked one. However, during these past two decades of radical change and energetic response, I believe we have missed a much more important shift, one that poses a more direct and existential threat than the one posed by the move from print to online. We have failed to prepare for the Read More...
July 30, 2013
Notes from the field: Digital Humanities 2013
On July 15 I participated in the Digital Humanities 2013, an international conference hosted by Ken Price, Kay Walter, and their colleagues at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. The four-day conference featured hundreds of compelling papers and posters about digital humanities theory, practice, projects, and tools.
The day before the conference, I hosted a half-day workshop for eighteen digital project leaders seeking to develop sustainability plans. We had a diverse and engaged group of Read More...
February 12, 2013
New Ithaka S+R Research Support Services Project in Art History
This winter, as part of the Research Support Services program, Ithaka S+R is launching a new investigation of researcher practices and support services needs in the field of art history. Our goal is to examine the evolving needs of researchers on a field-specific basis in order to best understand how libraries and other information services providers meet these needs. We are grateful to the Getty Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for their joint funding of this project.
Our work on this project is guided by an advisory board Read More...
February 12, 2013
Matthew P. Long
January 17, 2013
AHA Recap
On Saturday, January 5, I had the opportunity to present findings from Ithaka S+R’s recent project on “Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians.” This was not the first presentation of findings from the project, but because this particular one took the form of a roundtable of four historians at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, it was especially interesting. My colleagues on the panel were Francis X. Blouin (University of Michigan), Sharon Leon (George Mason University, who blogged her remarks), Stefan Read More...
January 17, 2013
Roger C. Schonfeld