2020
DOI: 10.18665/sr.313810
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Supporting Research in Languages and Literature

Abstract: Ithaka S+R provides research and strategic guidance to help the academic and cultural communities serve the public good and navigate economic, demographic, and technological change. Ithaka S+R is part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization that works to advance and preserve knowledge and to improve teaching and learning through the use of digital technologies. Artstor, JSTOR, and Portico are also part of ITHAKA.

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“…Our findings show that language and literature scholars generally cite books and book chapters, although journal articles also remain important. These findings confirm earlier studies on humanities research (Cooper et al, 2020;Cullars, 1985), including Pearce's (2019).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
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“…Our findings show that language and literature scholars generally cite books and book chapters, although journal articles also remain important. These findings confirm earlier studies on humanities research (Cooper et al, 2020;Cullars, 1985), including Pearce's (2019).…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 92%
“…They find documents through informal means such as browsing, getting recommendations from colleagues (both in-person and through social media), and citation chaining, as well as through formal indexes and databases. In information seeking, literary scholars also tend to prize novelty and relevance to ongoing debates over comprehensiveness, and often find information serendipitously (Cooper et al, 2020;Kautto and Talja, 2007;Lehnen and Insua, 2021). As a group, literary scholars have also been more wary of Google Scholar than those in STEM, preferring tools more oriented towards the humanities and books (Cooper et al, 2020, p. 16).…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…36 In a similar vein, the Ithaka S+R report on language and literature scholars notes that humanists, like other researchers, have "personalized and idiosyncratic ways of organizing their research materials." 37 They also, like other researchers, may use a set of tools to organize their work.…”
Section: Personal Information As Research Datamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to the Ithaka S+R report, "The organization of primary source material often poses the greatest challenge" for language and literature scholars. 50 They may lack sustainable methods for storing primary source material, instead using such applications as Microsoft Word or Google products. 51 Not only are these methods technologically unstable and unsuited to best practices in digital preservation, but also they may cause scholars to lose time trying to find their data.…”
Section: Managing the Records Data Ecosystemmentioning
confidence: 99%