Services
Institutional Repositories
Institutional Repositories are archiving and providing access to the scholarly output of institutions worldwide. In addition to UCF's Institutional Repository, STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship), below are some examples of repositories at other institutions.
About Digital Scholarship
Very simply, digital scholarship is any scholarly publication in electronic format, including e-journals, e-books, subject repositories, institutional repositories, and personal or insitutional web sites. Digital scholarship is often open access, and more and more of it is peer-reviewed.
"Workflow of Scholarship"by Flickr user cogdogblog, made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
The following feed is from the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog by Charles W. Bailey, Jr. made available under a Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License. It provides links to the latest articles dealing with trends in digital scholarship.
Resources
- Current Models of Digital Scholarly CommunicationReport on faculty use of digital resources and digital publishing. Results of an Investigation Conducted by Ithaka Strategic Services for the Association of Research Libraries.
- Journal of Electronic Publishing [JEP]A forum for research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices, and the impact of those practices upon users
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing BibliographyThis bibliography presents selected English-language articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.