The following list contains articles, blog posts, and books suggesting parameters for evaluating digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. This list is updated regularly.
- Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall 2012: “Closing the Evaluation Gap“
- Anne Burdick et al., Digital_Humanities (excerpt), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012 (pp.8-9)
- DHSI Digital Humanities for Department Chairs and Deans (2021 workshop, ongoing)
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, “Peer Review, Judgment, and Reading” (2011)
- Sharon Leon, “Reviewing is an Act of Leadership” (2018)
- Laura Mandell, “Promotion and Tenure for Digital Scholarship” (2012)
- Todd Presner, “How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship” (2012)
- James P. Purdy and Joyce R. Walker, “Valuing Digital Scholarship” (2010)
- Geoffrey Rockwell, “Short Guide to Evaluation of Digital Work” (2012)
- Susan Schreibman et al., “Evaluating Digital Scholarship” (2011)
- Syracuse University and Katina Rogers, “Next Generation Dissertations – Evaluation” (2021)
- Amanda Visconti, “Personal guidelines for DH journal and conference reviewing” (2019)
Guidelines from Humanities Associations
- Association for Computers and the Humanities
- American History Association
- College Art Association
- Modern Language Association
Peer Review of Digital Scholarship
- ARC (The Advanced Research Consortium)
- Reviews in Digital Humanities
Perspectives from the Publishing Industry
- Monica McCormick, “Open Access Monographs: New Tools, More Access” (2019)
- Peter Burkery, Annette Windhorn, “How university presses are learning to serve digital humanists” (2019)
- Journal of Scholarly Publishing, Special Issue: Digital Publishing for Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 48 No. 2 (2017)
- The Scholarly Kitchen: Research
Further Reading
- Debates in the Digital Humanities Series (2012-present)
- Jessie Daniels and Polly Thistlethwaite, Being a Scholar in the Digital Era: Transforming scholarly practice for the public good (2016)
- Johanna Drucker, Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production (2014)
- Marcel O’Gorman, E-Crit. Digital Media, Critical Theory, and the Humanities (2006)
- Marie-Laure Ryan et al., The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (2014)
- Jeffrey Schnapp, Knowledge Design (2014)
- Cassidy R. Sugimoto and Vincent Larivière, Measuring Research. What everyone needs to know (2018)
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