… reorients the role of academy
* Because digital scholarship focuses on access to and dissemination of information and resources, it challenges structures within the academy surrounding traditional modes of publishing. Therefore, digital scholarship must also ask critical questions about the role of the academy in the community at large.
* Restrictive access to personnel and resources reinforces the university as the sole point of knowledge sharing. The academy, as a whole, needs to address the tension between its current modes of praxis and scholarship's stated mission as service to and betterment of its various communities. These communities include the surrounding public, at the local level; policy and advocacy initiatives, at the regional and national levels; and global scholarship at the international level. As a champion of opening discourse around access to information, digital scholarship initiatives position the research library in a leadership role for both questioning and reconciling the academy's stated goals with community needs and interests.