TY - JOUR AU - Riva, Massimo PY - 2017/12/26 TI - An Emerging Scholarly Form: The Digital Monograph JF - DigitCult - Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures; Vol 2 No 3 (2017)DO - 10.4399/97888255099087 KW - N2 - Two recent initiatives, in the English-speaking world, are currently promoting monograph publishing in digital formats, with a specific focus on the arts and humanities but also including the social sciences. The American initiative is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation; in the U.K., the Arts and Humanities Research Council has also promoted a similar initiative, the Academic Book of the Future, which produced a final report released in Spring 2017. This article describes some of the challenges and opportunities the author and his team are facing in designing a digital monograph on eigteenth and nineteenth-century visual culture, one of two pilot projects of the Brown University library Digital Publishing Initiative, funded by the Mellon foundation. UR - https://digitcult.lim.di.unimi.it/index.php/dc/article/view/53