Digital Scholarship

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York University Libraries has expertise in many areas related to for research, teaching and learning. We teach workshops, but can also help integrate skills into your existing courses and curriculum.

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On-demand training
Scheduled workshops and classes
Co-curricular and curricular integration
Our areas of expertise

On-demand training

Enjoy our growing list of self-paced courses and tutorials for learning skills on your own schedule:

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Scheduled workshops and classes

We offer regular workshops and seminars on research methods, software tools, content creation, and more. See the calendar below for upcoming opportunities specific to digital scholarship work. For media-creation workshops, visit the MCL's workshops page.

Co-curricular and curricular integration

In addition to booking a library or digital scholarship skills class, you may want to talk to us about more in-depth library integration in your courses and programs:

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Our areas of expertise

York University librarians and archivists share expertise in a broad range of areas that aren't always reflected in workshops. We would be happy to talk to you about how to incorporate any of these topics into your research, teaching, and learning!

Version control with GIT (Software Carpentry)
Introduction to the command line (Software Carpentry)
Building regular expressions (Software Carpentry)
Fundamentals of SQL (Software Carpentry)

Planning and project management for digitization projects
Digitization and selection fundamentals (i.e. copyright)
Metadata for digital collections
Introduction to Scalar and other tools for digital narratives or exhibits
Leveraging and publishing linked open data (including NACO, Wikidata)
Working with archival materials for digital collections

Pressbooks for Journal Layouts
The fundamentals of open textbooks
Develop non-linear digital narratives with Scalar
Establishing a scholarly journal
Getting the most out of Open Journal Systems 3.x
Best practices for optimizing accessibility in publishing
SSHRC Aid to Scholarly Journals Program

Introduction to digital pedagogy: opportunities, strategies, and optimizing your efforts
Integrating digital pedagogy into your teaching
Digital pedagogy for humanists
Digital pedagogy for social scientists
Digital pedagogy for scientists

Developing a Research Data Management Plan
Finding, citing, and publishing data
Strategies for data documentation and data organization
Data security and data storage

Leveraging the scholarly publishing ecosystem to optimize visibility (DOIs, ORCIDs, Google Scholar, etc.)
Discoverability for non-textual research outputs
Navigating the impact landscape
Scholarly profile bootcamp/ How to improve your impact without academia.edu

Introduction to Open Refine
Introduction to XPath
Basics of working with XML and JSON
Introduction to text mining with Voyant
Working with web archives

Introduction to ArcGIS for non specialists
Fundamentals of geolocation
Tableau basics for researchers
The Google Visualization API
SPSS basics for researchers

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