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Looking at the tools common to digital humanities research could help us define the term itself.

Digital and online work, though abundant, still lacks the kind of broad academic review seen by its traditional counterparts.

An increasing number of humanities scholars are experimenting with new forms of thinking and dialogue that take place in new, “virtual” sites.

Google launches new e-books venture, stating that it plans to work with independent bookstores, behaving more like a wholesaler than competitors like Apple and Amazon.

Students can now participate in the joining of technology and the humanities in PhD degree options like "Computing in the Humanities" and "Digital Humanities."

College campuses experiment with integrating iPads into the curricula by distributing them free to students, preloaded with course material.

Anthologize is a new open-source digital humanities tool that allows WordPress users to aggregate, edit and remix blog posts and export them into multiple formats.

Brian Croxall has written an open letter to incoming graduate students in the humanities, offering timely advice useful to just about anyone in a graduate program.

Online peer review forums can level the playing field between expert and layman reviewers, but vastly increase the amount of scholarly discourse and level of critique for works before they get edited by writers before publishing.

Massive Open Online Courses change the role of the instructor and increase the importance of material produced by the student body, which can be in the realm of thousands for a single course.