Exploring the research topic of Digital Scholarship Open-dataset for the systematic review of the Literature

The concept of Digital Scolarship -DS-(Borgman, 2007; Pearce, Weller, Scanlon, & Kinsley, 2012; Weller, 2011) defines new forms of academics' professional practices linked to the changing cultural, social and working context of the digital age. However, the empirical research efforts relating this construct seem to emerge in a rather chaotic conceptual and methodological landscape, where several disciplines are contributing. In line with this problem, in this research work the authors have formulated the following operational hypothesis: as a mixed disciplinary topic of research, the DS is at its very first stages with high dispersion and fragmentation of conceptual bases for both further theoretical elaboration as well as empirical research. Going in the direction of this endeavor, in this research work the authors have carried out a systematic review of literature based on 45 journal articles coming out from 4 relevant scientific information databases. The present dataset has been used as the base for the classification of articles analyzed, according to the approach of the systematic review of the literature. The systematic literature review, it generally encompasses an initial mapping on a sample of publications according to specific categories followed by simple data elaboration techniques in order to visualize results and proceed with interpretations connected to the main review's hypothesis. The intention is not to redress biases in prior authors' discussions about the background in a specific field, but to provide further instruments to understand research problems, topics, tools, findings and overall trends in a specific field (Petticrew&Roberts, 2006). The instructions to read an use the data contained in the dataset are provided in the excel file. Moreover, a live form to input new data, under the basis of the scheme followed by the authors, is provided. Please consider the Full report to contextualize this dataset: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288994707