https://blog.beyondcitation.org/Critical thinking about digital research.https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/05/12/beyond-citation-launches-today/https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/05/12/beyond-citation-launches-today/Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 GMTThe 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 da https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/04/17/building-digital-tools-to-explain-digital-tools/https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/04/17/building-digital-tools-to-explain-digital-tools/Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTOver the last few weeks, the Beyond Citation team has transformed into a web production team of sorts, focused on making key decisions about site platform, site architecture, user interaction, design, and communication. https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/04/07/its-the-content-stupid/https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/04/07/its-the-content-stupid/Mon, 07 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMTI teach workshops on library databases to a range of users at the New York Public Library. Some of the students are academics, others are unaffiliated scholars, and many more are undergraduate or graduate students from n https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/03/31/understanding-databases/https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/03/31/understanding-databases/Mon, 31 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTEvery year, more and more research is done by scholars online via academic databases. Print journals, scholarly monographs, newspapers, periodical indexes, and even ephemera and image collections are steadily transitioni https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/03/24/authority-and-academic-databases/https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/03/24/authority-and-academic-databases/Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTBeyond 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 y https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/03/21/a-digital-humanities-start-up/https://blog.beyondcitation.org/2014/03/21/a-digital-humanities-start-up/Fri, 21 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMTDuring 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