Shaping the Digital Dissertation
Subtitle: knowledge production in the Arts and Humanities
By: edited by Virginia Kuhn and Anke Finger
Contributors: Open Book Publishers
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781800641013; 9781800641020; 9781800641037; 9781800641006
Subjects: Electronic dissertations; Academic Dissertations; Higher Education; Academic Dissertations as Topic; Thèses électroniques; Thèses et écrits académiques; Enseignement supérieur; Higher education
Description: Shaping the Digital Dissertation aims to provide insights, precedents and best practices to graduate students, doctoral advisors, institutional agents, and dissertation committees. As digital dissertations have a potential impact on the state of research as a whole, this edited collection will be a useful resource for the wider academic community and anyone interested in the future of doctoral studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-05-14).
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Contributor Biographies; title: Introduction: Shedding Light on the Process of Digital Knowledge Production / Anke Finger and Virginia Kuhn; title: 1. Dissertating in Public / Kathleen Fitzpatrick; title: 2. Publication Models and Open Access / Cheryl E. Ball; title: 3. The Digital Monograph? Key Issues in Evaluation / Virginia Kuhn; title: 4. #DigiDiss: A Project Exploring Digital Dissertation Policies, Practices and Archiving / Kathie Gossett and Liza Potts; title: 5. The Gutenberg Galaxy will be Pixelated or How to Think of Digital Scholarship as The Present: An Advisor's Perspective / Anke Finger; title: 6. Findable, Impactful, Citable, Usable, Sustainable (FICUS): A Heuristic for Digital Publishing / Nicky Agate, Cheryl E. Ball, Allison Belan, Monica McCormick and Joshua Neds-Fox; title: 7. Navigating Institutions and Fully Embracing the Interdisciplinary Humanities: American Studies and the Digital Dissertation / Katherine Walden and Thomas Oates; title: 8. MADSpace: A Janus-Faced Digital Companion to a PhD Dissertation in Chinese History / Cécile Armand; title: 9. Publish Less, Communicate More! Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project / Sarah-Mai Dang; title: 10. #SocialDiss: Transforming the Dissertation into Networked Knowledge Production / Erin Rose Glass; title: 11. Highly Available Dissertations: Open Sourcing Humanities Scholarship / Lisa Tagliaferri; title: 12. The Digital Thesis as a Website: SoftPhD.com, from Graphic Design to Online Tools / Anthony Masure; title: 13. Writing a Dissertation with Images, Sounds and Movements: Cinematic Bricolage / Lena Redman; title: 14. Precarity and Promise: Negotiating Research Ethics and Copyright in a History Dissertation / Celeste Tường Vy Sharpe; title: 15. Lessons from the Sandbox: Linking Readership, Representation and Reflection in Tactile Paths / Christopher Williams; title: List of illustrations; title: Index.