Technologies at Hand On Researcher Practices During a Pandemic

The relationship between research behaviors and technology is a topic Danielle Cooper has a birdseye view on, through her work at Ithaka S+R, where she oversees a program examining scholars’ research practices discipline-by-discipline. On 25 March 2020, she gave the introductory talk to NISO’s virtual conference on Research Behaviors and the Impact of Technology. She focused on how the current crisis shows the limits of technology for researchers. In spite of the many affordances, research is not propelled by technology alone and it is the human dimension to scholarly inquiry that matters more than ever.