Shawn Martin is Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania. He has a BA in history from Ohio State University and an MA in history from the College of William and Mary. He has worked for several years in digital libraries including the Digital Library Project at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the Ohio Memory Project at the Ohio Historical Society, and, most recently, the Text Creation Partnership at the University of Michigan. Shawn is also active in several library and scholarly associations and serves as the Executive Director of the American Association for History and Computing.
Journal Articles
EEBO, Microfilm, and Umberto Eco: Historical Lessons and Future Directions for Building Electronic Collections, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2007)
In an age of mass digitization with book scanning projects like Google and Microsoft and...
Digital Scholarship and Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities: Lessons from the Text Creation Partnership, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2007)
Electronic technology has changed the way scholars in the humanities do their work, creating two...
Collaboration in Electronic Scholarly Communication: New Possibilities for Old Books, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2006)
The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project at the University of Michigan, a project that maximizes...
Reaching Out: What do Scholars Want from Electronic Resources?, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2005)
The potentials for teaching and learning using technology are tremendous. Now, more than ever before,...