Digital Scholarship Centers in academic libraries: A Transformational Planning.

Document Type : Original Article

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جامعة المنوفية - كلية الآداب - قسم المكتبات والمعلومات

Abstract

The study defined the "Digital Scholarship Centers" and their relationship with academic libraries, and tools needed for managing data in Digital Scholarship Centers , which were presented based on the (Spring Share Lib APP'S) platform, in order to come out with results and indicators from study field based on the development of the proposed transformational plan. This study is based on several approaches; The descriptive approach within documentary and comparative style, in order to compare digital scholarship centers at universities, and its analytical approach for analyzing the SSLA'S platform, by applying various data collection tools; Between, qualitative and quantitative tools, where the mixed research method was applied. One of the most important findings is that most important features of the ecological center is the feature of peer learning, where it is possible to educate all affiliates at university in different disciplines of scientific skills in exchange for each other, and the digital services in the centers are based on supporting the life cycle of scientific research, With the required digital, technical and software tools that facilitate the completion of this course, starting from the selection of the research idea to digital published, through storage, preservation, statistical analysis

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