Digital Scholarship Initiatives Publications

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Digital scholarship is scholarship that is enhanced by the design of digital projects, incorporation of digital tools, collaboration among digital partners, and dissemination through digital platforms. Digital scholarship is changing the nature of how research is conducted, produced, and shared.

Digital Scholarship Initiatives, an extension of the mission of the Walker Library as an active partner in the scholarly communication process, supports the educational mission of the university by providing access to information. Walker Library has invested resources to establish the necessary and supportive infrastructure used in the creation and dissemination of digital resources.

To learn more, visit the DSI homepage at http://dsi.mtsu.edu

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    FAQ: JEWLScholar@MTSU
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-12) JEWLScholar
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    JEWLScholar Infographic 2014: Introduction to the Institutional Repository
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-12) JEWLScholar
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    JEWLScholar: Institutional Repository Guidelines
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2014-12-11) JEWLScholar
    JEWLScholar is the institutional repository of Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), providing open access to scholarly research conducted at MTSU. Faculty, Students and Staff of MTSU may contribute materials (both born-digital and digitized materials) to JEWLScholar which creates a cohesive and useful way for scholars to access and connect to MTSU produced research. This service is provided by James E. Walker Library, and is guided by the values of excellence, collaboration, service, and responsibility. The following is a resource for policy guidelines.
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    Journals@MTSU Infographic
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Digital Scholarship
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    Criteria for Digital Scholarship
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Miller, A.
    To read the Criteria for Digital Scholarship, click the "View/Open" link below.
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    Non-Exclusive Deposit License Agreement
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) JEWLScholar
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    JEWLScholar Infographic 2015: Introduction to the Institutional Repository
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015) Digital Scholarship
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2014-2015: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2015-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2015-2016: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    JEWLScholar@MTSU Monthly Downloads: August 2016
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2016-08) Digital Scholarship
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    Presenting the Digital Humanities Collection -- Trials, Triumphs, and Transformations: Tennesseans' Search for Citizenship, Community, and Opportunity
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2017) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Tennessee’s history between the end of the American Civil War (1865) and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act often gets ignored. This historic period offers insights into the transformations that took place, including challenges and achievements, as Tennesseans searched for citizenship, community and opportunity. Citizenship—what that has meant and how that has changed—is at the heart of this digital exploration into Tennessee history and culture. This digital collection’s objects, songs, photographs, paintings, and documents often reveal the challenges faced by Tennesseans as they pursued the rights and benefits of citizenship.
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    Digital Scholarship Initaitives Infographic
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2017) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Digital scholarship is scholarship enhanced by the design of digital projects, incorporation of digital tools, collaboration among digital partners, and dissemination through digital platforms. This infographic is an introduction to the Digital Scholarship Initiatives at Middle Tennessee State University's Walker Library. Read about our mission, collaboration with campus, and digital scholarship and digital humanities opportunities such as the digital seed, tools, and the seminar and workshop series.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2016-2017: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2017-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    JEWLScholar Submission Instructions
    (James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2018) Digital Scholarship
    For instructions on how to submit items to the institutional repository (JEWLScholar), click on the view/open button below.
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    Introducing the Digital Collection: Historic Clothing Collection
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2018) Digital Scholarship Initaitives
    The Textiles, Merchandising and Design Historic Clothing Collection at MTSU was founded in 1988 at the encouragement of the curator of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, as inspiration to build a collection for students and the public in the state of Tennessee. Collection activities include donations, accession, documentation, study, research and exhibition of historic clothing and accessories. The entire 750 piece collection is maintained in an environmentally controlled laboratory for continued preservation. Since the inception of the Historic Clothing Collection, the primary method of locating or researching items has been a physical search utilizing hard copy descriptions of items, in three ring binders. The 2017-2018 Digital Seed Grant (and library expertise) enabled the collection’s digital development through photography, garment metadata, digital inventory and a permanent website for the collection’s continued growth. This effort allows visual identification and study of the collection by the current MTSU community, community partners, and the public at large.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2017-2018: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2018-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools and methodologies learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.
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    DIGITAL SEED GRANT WINNERS AND FINAL PROJECTS 2017-2018
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2018-07) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives supports individual and collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, and public outreach from any discipline on campus. The Digital Seed Grant is an annual award for start-up funds, developed to encourage and create opportunities for faculty, staff, and graduate students to use digital technologies in their research or teaching. The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had an impressive amount of applications for its inaugural year, which launched in 2016 (award period of 2017-2018). Due to the quantity and quality of proposals, the Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Dean of Libraries decided to award three grants for the 2017 calendar year. The awardees were announced on the website at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant17-18. Below are brief summaries of the winning projects (in no particular order) and a link to their individual outcomes.
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    Digital Seed Grant Winners and Final Projects 2018-2019
    (Digital Scholarship Initaitives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    Walker Library Digital Scholarship Initiatives supports individual and collaborative digital scholarship projects in research, teaching, and public outreach from any discipline on campus. The Digital Seed Grant is an annual award for start-up funds, developed to encourage and create opportunities for faculty, staff, and graduate students to use digital technologies in their research or teaching. The Digital Seed Grant (dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant) had an impressive amount of applications for its second year (2018-2019 projects), which originally launched in 2016 (award period of 2017-2018). Due to the quantity and quality of proposals, the Digital Seed Grant Review Committee and Dean of Libraries decided to award two grants for the 2018 academic year. The awardees were announced on the website at http://dsi.mtsu.edu/dsgrant18-19. See the pdf for brief summaries of the winning projects (in no particular order) and a link to their individual outcomes.
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    Digital Project Preservation Plan: A Guide for Preserving Digital Humanities / Scholarship Projects
    ( 2019-02) Miller, A. ; Molly Taylor-Poleskey, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University ; Amy Harris-Aber, Department of English, Middle Tennessee State University ; Susan W. Knowles, Center for Historic Preservation, Middle Tennessee State University
    A Digital Project Preservation Plan is designed to help with organizing preservation efforts for digital projects. Initially drafted as a companion guide meant to fill the gap on best methods for preserving digital scholarship or digital humanities projects, it can also be applied to digital projects outside the humanities. This preservation plan is most beneficial to those digital humanities (DH) project creators who need guidance on how to start a digital project with preservation in mind. Although the DH community has shared resources and case studies, the examples available tend to focus on DH development, and less on DH preservation. These resources are also located in disparate locations. The Digital Project Preservation Plan is a singular guide, focusing on DH preservation, as a starting point with references to more resources and related DH practices. This is a working document, available to practitioners in whole or part; ideally, it will be used in the early stages of project planning and consulted and revised regularly. The preservation infrastructure should be designed and built as a collaborative effort from the beginning of the project. As priorities, methods and technologies change, the preservation plan will need to be updated and modified accordingly.
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    Digital Scholarship Initiatives Highlights 2018-2019: A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment
    (Digital Scholarship Initiatives, Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University, 2019-06) Digital Scholarship Initiatives
    A Digital Scholarship Center Assessment. Digital Scholarship Initiatives began at Walker Library several years ago as a way to build out the library’s collections digitally. More recently, other initiatives have been added including JEWLScholar; Journal Hosting services; the creation of a collaborative Digital Partners group; and a Digital Scholarship Lab (DSL) dedicated to faculty and advanced students who enhance research by using digital tools and methodologies learned in workshops, collaborating on digital projects, and disseminating research through digital platforms. What follows is an assessment of the past year's development.