Digital Scholarship
Overview
Rod Library's Digital Scholarship unit partners with faculty, students, and staff to advance research, teaching, and creative expression in the digital age. The Digital Scholarship unit manages content, infrastructure, and user interfaces for all stages of the research lifecycle, including research planning, execution, dissemination, discovery, preservation, and impact. We showcase the intellectual vitality of the University by managing UNI's institutional repository and digital collections, digitizing materials, assisting in planning and implementing scholarly digital projects, and providing support for the scholarly communication. We accept a broad range of content from the University of Northern Iowa community.
UNI ScholarWorks
The Digital Scholarship unit coordinates UNI ScholarWorks, the institutional repository. The purpose of UNI ScholarWorks is to collect, preserve, and make available the research, creative, and scholarly output from the University of Northern Iowa's community. Our goal is to showcase the knowledge, creativity, and innovative spirit of UNI.
Location
- The Digital Scholarship Unit is located on the first floor of Rod Library in LIB 125.
- The Unit also coordinates the use of scanners located in the Digital Scholarship Lab in LIB 129.
What We Do
Rod Library works to expand the reach and impact of UNI departments and programs. The Global Readership Map shows over 6 million downloads of material located in the institutional repository.
- Share your work through our digital publishing platform
- Preserve your scholarship and data
- Make your work more visible
- Navigate copyright and Open Access licensing
Coordinate the use of scanners located in the Digital Scholarship Lab by campus faculty, staff, and students as well as the public. Set up an appointment through the scholarworks@uni.edu email account. If you schedule an appointment, you must bring a USB.
The library has a large format scanner. People with oversized materials, those who want a higher quality scan than the library’s KIC scanners provide, or those with film/film slides are the people most likely to need our scanners. Digital Scholarship staff provide one-on-one consultation with these appointments to explain scanner setting and software.
Specs of Scanners in Room LIB 129:
- File formats: TIF, PDF, JPG, PNG
- DPI: 300-2400
- Color: Black and White, Greyscale, Color
- Size: Up to 18in by 24in [For Flat Items Only]
- Object Format: Papers, Books, Photographs, Film, Film Slides
Partners
What We Offer
Digital Scholarship provides a variety of services to the UNI community.