Contemporary Academic Research and the Challenges of the Digital Era

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200115.072How to use a DOI?

Keywords

digital aids to research, research publication, open access publishing, predatory journals, management of research

Abstract

Academics world-wide value the tasks of research and writing as ways of making valuable contributions to their fields of study. Universities also benefit greatly from their active researchers by gaining an increased research profile and they therefore establish mechanisms to support productive research. However, the traditional structures to support and guide academic research have been disrupted by the introduction of a large variety of digital aids to research. Despite the huge benefits of digital supports, most of them do not embrace the traditional research infrastructure systems of universities. Moreover, the traditional publishing processes which once provided universities with control over the research quantum have been replaced by a plethora of seemingly official, seemingly genuine research journals, many of which are fake and are set up to harvest exorbitant payments from unsuspecting research authors. This paper explains some of the challenges of digitisation to the research process and proposes responses to them.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Peter G. Waterworth
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/20
TI  - Contemporary Academic Research and the Challenges of the Digital Era
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Innovative Research Across Disciplines (ICIRAD 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 436
EP  - 439
SN  - 2352-5398
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