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Open Education, Library

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Changing reality of research production in the Humanities A new research paradigm With the massive availability of multimode communications tools on the internet, the production cycle of new scientific insights has changed profoundly, even in the most traditional humanities research fields. While one would follow-up peer reviewed journals, and then digest what is read, combine it with proper source research and submit new articles that often taken up to 2 years to get published, a dynamic knowledge exchange biotope has been created in which science is cultivated at a much faster pace and with a much broader scope despite the ever growing specialisation. The researcher is no longer individually browsing through the wealth of relevant publications: this is done by Google, JSTOR and comparable databases in the digital library. I will give three concrete examples of changing practices in humanities research, one from literary studies (web portals), one from art history (databases), and one from history (tools), that show just how the internet environment impacts research strategies, and then will discuss how the library can support this.