The Scholarly Impact Service (SIS) is team of librarians who can help you tell the story of your scholarship and its impact on your discipline. Contact us to start a personal consultation about your scholarly impact.
Main Contact: John Martin
John.Martin@unt.edu
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Expertise: Publication options, ORCIDs, Google Scholar profiles
Erin O'Toole
Erin.Otoole@unt.edu
Subject Librarian for the College of Science
Expertise: Author, article and journal metrics
Pamela Andrews
Pamela.Andrews@unt.edu
Repository Librarian
Expertise: UNT Scholarly Works, open access, digital visibility
The Modern Language Association describes the use of digital media in scholarship as transformative, and guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship should account for the various forms, networks, and literacies demanded by their use.
Per the MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media: "Digital media have expanded the objects and forms of inquiry of modern language departments to include images, sounds, data, kinetic attributes like animation, and new kinds of engagement with textual representation and analysis. These innovations have considerably broadened notions of language, language teaching, text, textual studies, and literary and media objects, the traditional purview of modern language departments."
Recommended metrics
Evaluating Digital Scholarship (MLA Committee on Information Technology)
The publication Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy has assembled a list of resources that include professional organization guides for digital scholarship, and collected Institutional Tenure and Promotion Guidelines. [Note: some of these links are no longer active]
Although digital scholarship will have a number of metrics associated with it through the affordances of the online platform, communicating its impact will require a descriptive contextualization of how its qualities meet standards of scholarly rigor. For example, The Journal of American History recently expanded to include reviews of digital history projects, and the information below comes from their review guidellines. While the nature of digital scholarship blurs traditional categories of research, it can be helpful to think of a digital project through the categories below.
Per the Journal of American History:
While the categories can be helpful for clarifying the shape of your digital scholarship, the areas can be useful for thinking how you can more fully describe it in terms of scholarly rigor.
Per the Journal of American History: