Scott Library, Room 205 (behind the Learning Commons area)
Contact: diginit@yorku.ca
The Digital Scholarship Centre brings together Library expertise in the areas of scholarly publishing, digitization, metadata, digital collections, digital scholarship, research metrics, data management, data curation, preservation, repositories, digital cultures and pedagogy, eLearning, and Open Educational Resources.
The Digital Scholarship Centre hosts workshops, panel discussions, and lectures related to the issues and practices surrounding digital scholarship, scholarly communications, and digital tools.
Consultations
Thinking through a grant application? Looking to start a journal? Book a meeting to tap into library expertise at the Digital Scholarship Centre. Contact a librarian/archivist at diginit@yorku.ca to book a consultation.
Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities
The Libraries offer expertise in supporting a variety of research activities and techniques in the areas of Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities, including text analysis, data visualization and social media analysis. Visit the Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities guide to learn more.
Digital Authoring and Exhibits
York University Libraries make use of several open source software platforms to support digital authorship and to showcase digital exhibits. Contact diginit@yorku.ca to book a consultation.
Digitization best practices and facilities
The Libraries are actively engaged in the preservation of their archival holdings, including the digitization of textual materials, photographic prints and negatives, sound recordings and video. We are happy to share our experiences, lessons learned, and professional expertise. The Digital Scholarship Centre maintains several flat bed scanners that are available to community members by appointment and contingent on training and orientation on copyright and other rights responsibilities.
- Digitization
- Digitization best practices
- Digitization Resources
- Planning and Selecting for Digitization
Contact a librarian/archivist at diginit@yorku.ca to discuss digitization
Supported Digital Infrastructure
The Digital Scholarship Centre invests in the ongoing hosting and maintenance of the following open-source digital platforms which further the creation, discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge. Come by during drop-in hours or book a consultation to learn more.
- Institutional repository: YorkSpace
- Preservation repository platform: York University Digital Library
- Data repository platforms: Dataverse, YorkSpace
- Next-generation digital authorship platform: Scalar
- Digital collections and exhibits platform: Omeka
- Journal publishing platform: York Digital Journals
The hosting of digital platforms is governed by agreements. Contact a librarian/archivist at diginit@yorku.ca to discuss digital infrastructure.
Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Support
Libraries interact directly with publishers and the broader scholarly publishing community and have much to convey in terms of discovery and dissemination strategies for research.
Making one’s publications accessible is a function of a number of factors, including addressing barriers to access (open access publishing), considering copyright, leveraging technological infrastructure to maximize visibility, and publishing in venues that are recognized and visible to one’s target readership. The section below addresses these areas, integrating how the infrastructure described above advances strategies for navigating the landscape.
- Open Access Publishing: Frequently Asked Questions
- York University Senate Policy on Open Access: Frequently Asked Questions
- Choosing an appropriate journal for publishing research (includes open access options and information on predatory publishers)
- Understanding green and gold open access publishing (includes how to meet Tri-Council open access requirements)
- Copyright information for authors (copyright, author addenda, takedown notices)
- Leveraging the technological infrastructure of YorkSpace to maximize indexing, visibility and exposure of your research
Need help with making your research open access? Contact us at opendeposit@yorku.ca.
Research Metrics
Research in the area of Librarianship overlaps heavily with the interrogation of bibliometric tools and methodologies and the exploration of new and pluralist means of evaluating the impact of scholarship, often called "alt-metrics".
Have questions about research metrics? Contact us at metrics@yorku.ca.
Research Data Management
Research data management concerns the organization of data, from its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results. Whether you’re thinking through a small research project, writing a proposal or applying for a grant, drafting a plan is prudent and can help mitigate liability. The Libraries bring much to the table in this area, from helping researchers find and cite data to hosting data preservation platforms, to advising on data description and metadata standards for optimizing discovery.
- Research Data Management: Frequently Asked Questions
- Creating a research data management plan (managing your data before, during, and after publication)
- Depositing your data (making research data accessible)
- An introduction to open data
- Assigning a license to your data (clarifying terms of use)
Need research data management support? Contact us at yul_rdm@yorku.ca.