Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Contributor Biographies

ix

Introduction: Shedding Light on the Process of Digital Knowledge Production

1

Anke Finger and Virginia Kuhn

SECTION I: ISSUES IN DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP AND DOCTORAL EDUCATION

17

1.

Dissertating in Public

19

Kathleen Fitzpatrick

2.

Publication Models and Open Access

25

Cheryl E. Ball

3.

The Digital Monograph? Key Issues in Evaluation

35

Virginia Kuhn

4.

#DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and Archiving

49

Kathie Gossett and Liza Potts

5.

The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The Present: An Advisor’s Perspective

65

Anke Finger

6.

Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital Publishing

83

Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Allison Belan, Monica McCormick and Joshua Neds-Fox

SECTION II: SHAPING THE DIGITAL DISSERTATION IN ACTION

105

7.

Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation

107

Katherine Walden and Thomas Oates

8.

MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History

119

Cécile Armand

9.

Publish Less, Communicate More! Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project

129

Sarah-Mai Dang

10.

#SocialDiss: Transforming the Dissertation into Networked Knowledge Production

151

Erin Rose Glass

11.

Highly Available Dissertations: Open Sourcing Humanities Scholarship

165

Lisa Tagliaferri

12.

The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online Tools

187

Anthony Masure

13.

Writing a Dissertation with Images, Sounds and Movements: Cinematic Bricolage

205

Lena Redman

14.

Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation

237

Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe

15.

Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, Representation and Reflection in Tactile Paths

247

Christopher Williams

List of illustrations

261

Index

265

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