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
Open Access and Digital Libraries: A Case Study of the Text Creation Partnership, Scholarship at Penn Libraries (2010)
Many people operate under the assumption that Open/Closed access is a binary proposition. Either the...
Bringing Text Alive: The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication - Introduction, Early Modern Literary Studies (2008)
To Google or not to Google, that is the question: Supplementing Google Books to make it more useful for scholarship, Journal of Library Administration (2008)
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...
Contributions to Books
Open Access and Digital Libraries: A Case Study of the Text Creation Partnership, Electronic Publishing: Politics and Pragmatics (2010)
Many people operate under the assumption that Open/Closed access is a binary proposition. Either the...
A Universal Humanities Digital Library: Pipe Dream or Prospective Future?, Digital Scholarship (2008)
Popular Press
Unpublished Papers
A Modest Proposal for Scholarly Publishing: 21st Century Ideas for a 19th Century System, New Technologies in Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2012)
In 1729 Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal which proposed (albeit sarcastically) that Irish peasants...
Presentations
Promises and Perils of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Expanding the Reach of Graduate Work Online, Carnegie Mellon University (2010)
Institutional Repository Personality Disorder: How Do We Cure it?, SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (2008)
Launching and Growing the ScholarlyCommons@Penn: Evolution, Revolution, or Devolution, Putting Knowledge to Work Colloquium (2008)
Darth Vader, Open Access, and Digital Libraries: What is the Future of Electronic Collections?, David Binkley Paper on Emerging Technology (2007)
This session will look at the complexities of open and closed access business models used...
Other
What's Next: Patterns and Practices in History in Print and Online (2011)
Panel Discussion at the American Historical Association