Emory University
Emory University Libraries
Emory Center for Digital Scholarship
2020 CONTACT:Jesse P. Karlsberg, Senior Digital Scholarship Strategist
Phone: 617-984-9378
Email: jesse.p.karlsberg@emory.edu
Program Overview
The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship works with faculty, students, and staff from across the university to provide expertise, consultation, and technical assistance in the creation of digital projects and publications.
Ranked among the top 25 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in North America, Emory University Libraries in Atlanta and Oxford, Georgia, are an intellectual commons for Emory University. The Libraries’ holdings include more than 4 million print and electronic volumes, nearly 100,000 electronic journals, and internationally renowned special collections.
Location: United States
Organization: services distributed across campus
Stage (1-3): 3 - Established
Open Access Focus (1-5): 4 - Very Important
Program Advisory/Editorial Board: No
Peer Reviewed Journals: 80%
Staffing (in Full Time Equivalents):
- Professional staff: 5
- Paraprofessional staff: 2
- Graduate students: 4
- Library Operating Budget: 80%
- Grants: 20%
Publishing Activities
Types of publications: conference papers and proceedings, faculty; databases; electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs); journals, campus-based faculty-created; journals, contracted by external groups; monographs; newsletters; technical/research reports; expansive digital projects.| 2019 | Open Access | Paid | Hybrid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campus-based Faculty-driven Journal | 5 | 5 | ||
| Campus-based Student-driven Journals | ||||
| Databases | 8 | 8 | ||
| ETDs | 683 | 683 | ||
| Faculty Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Journals for External Groups | ||||
| Monographs | 1 | 1 | ||
| Newsletters | ||||
| Student Conference Papers and Proceedings | ||||
| Technical/Research Reports | ||||
| Textbooks | ||||
| Undergraduate Capstones/Honors Theses | 269 | 269 |
2019: New publications from July 2018 to June 2019. Journals include titles actively publishing during the date range. Other publication types include items that were published or added to repositories for the first time within the date range.
OA/Paid/Hybrid: Publications currently published and/or available online. OA (open access) publications do not include counts for hybrid publications. Hybrid publications are those that may be offered in some form as OA, but are also available as a paid version.
Other/Additional Publishing Activities:
- Library Publishing Activities: expansive digital projects (4)
Highlights
- Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (database)
- Southern Spaces (journal)
- Atlanta Studies (journal)
- Holocaust Denial on Trial (expansive digital project)
- Views of Rome (expansive digital project)
- health sciences
- history
- literary studies
- Southern studies
- religious studies
Partners
Openess to Partners: Consider external partners if there is a tie to my institution (e.g. local editor of a journal for an external scholarly society)
Best publications to refer to our program: Those where Emory faculty, students, or staff are involved.
Technologies & Services
- audio
- concept maps or other visualizations
- data
- images
- modeling
- multimedia/interactive content
- text
- video
- augmented reality; virtual reality; 360 degree video
- Dataverse
- Fedora
- Samvera
- Scalar
- WordPress
- locally developed software
- Hyrax; Manifold; Readux; OpenTour Builder; ATLMaps
- analytics
- audio/video streaming
- author advisory – copyright
- author advisory – other
- business model development
- contract/license preparation
- data visualization
- dataset management
- digitization
- DOI assignment/allocation of identifiers
- graphic design (print or web)
- hosting of supplemental content
- image services
- metadata
- peer review management
- training
- Amazon Glacier
- Amazon S3
- HathiTrust
- Data-PASS
Additional Information
Plans for Expansion & Future Directions:In 2015, Emory Libraries started its Digital Library Program, a multi-year initiative to promote best practices and provide long term access to Emory's unique digital assets and collections. A key offering of the Program is to develop a versatile and feature-rich digital repository platform using the open source Samvera framework. We are now in the implementation phase of the initiative and will migrate five pilot collections in late 2019. We are also planning the ingest of our existing institutional repository, OpenEmory, as well as our ETD repository, Emory Theses and Dissertations, into the larger DLP platform, which will also include digital collections from Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library among others. Emory Center for Digital Scholarship recently launched version 3 of its OpenTourBuilder for creating mobile walking, biking, and driving tours, and is launching new partnerships to publish tours publishing scholarship about Atlanta, Georgia, and beyond for use in teaching and by the general public. ECDS is launching version 2 of Readux this winter, a platform for publishing thematic research collections and scholarly editions of digitized books.
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