The Beyond Citation project team is thrilled to announce the public launch of our website at BeyondCitation.org. Even though scholars use academic databases every day, it is difficult to find information about how the databases work and what is in them. Beyond Citation gathers information about academic databases in one place to enable traditional humanities scholars […]
Continue reading →Beyond Citation hopes to encourage critical thinking by scholars about academic databases. But what do we mean by critical thinking? Media culture scholar Wendy Hui Kyong Chun has defined critique as not attacking what you think is false, but thinking through the limitations and possibilities of what you think is true. One question that the […]
Continue reading →During the Fall 2013 semester, I started reading, thinking and writing about the impact of academic databases such as JSTOR and Gale’s Artemis: Primary Sources on research and scholarship. I learned that databases shape the questions that can be asked and the arguments that can be made by scholars through search interfaces, algorithms, and the items […]
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