Offering new insights into promising ways to facilitate the uptake of open scholarship in the humanities, this open access book gives further shape to the digital humanities and the prospects of their future as part of a far more open and public world of scholarship.

The book begins with the history of digital developments and their influence on the founding of international policies toward open scholarship. The concept of making research more freely available to the broader community, in practice, will require changes across every part of the system: government agencies, funders, university administrators, publishers, libraries, researchers and IT developers. To this end, the book sheds light on the urgent need for partnership and collaboration between diverse stakeholders to address multi-level barriers to both the policy and practical implementation of open scholarship. It also highlights the specific challenges confronted by the humanities which often makes their presentation in accessible open formats more costly and complex. Finally, the authors illustrate some promising international examples and ways forward for their implementation. The book ends by asking the reader to view their role as a researcher, university administrator, or member of government or philanthropic funding body, through new lenses. It highlights how, in our digital era, the frontiers through which knowledge is being advanced and shared can reshape the landscape for academic research to have the greatest impact for society.

The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Edith Cowan University.

Paul Arthur is Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow, and Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He publishes widely on the global impacts of technology in culture and society and was Australia's first Professor in Digital Humanities (Western Sydney University, 2013-2016). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has over fifty publications and has given keynote and invited talks in 20 countries.

Dr Lydia Hearn has over 30 years of research experience in Australia, Colombia, Egypt, the Netherlands, UK and USA where she has been involved in major projects for organisations such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Organisation of American States (OAS), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and the Australian Department of Health and Ageing. Much of her research has been translated into policy and practice and she has published major reviews, public reports, policy papers and journal articles.