UW Libraries Blog

May 27, 2021

Beyond the Pilot: Digital Scholarship Open Hosting Platforms Are Here to Stay

UW Libraries Digital Scholarship Team

The UW Libraries wants to support you in creating knowledge and sharing it openly through digital means! We’ve been piloting open hosting platforms over the past few years and we are pleased to announce that Manifold Publishing (digital book publishing), Digital Scholarship Hosting (Omeka, WordPress, Scalar, and more), and UW Pressbooks (for creating and adapting Open Educational Resources) are now part of the Libraries’ permanent service offerings! 

Explore 

How can YOU use these platforms to enhance your teaching and openly publish your research? Here are a few great examples highlighting the digital scholarship work of UW colleagues across all three campuses:

Manifold (Digital Book Publishing)

  • We Are History Keepers Workshop Guidebook created by UW Libraries’ Special Collections for community members to organize and preserve documents, photos, and recordings of the facts of their experiences to create concrete records of Northwest history.
  • A digital edition of the Mill on the Floss prepared by students in Dr. Jesse Oak Taylor’s English 440/529 course, Spring 2020. Watch this video to hear more from Dr. Taylor and how he used Manifold with his class:

“The ability to add images to your work, and play around with their form, is enabling to the student’s learning as it allows us to mimic the real world” – Dr. Jess Oak Taylor

Omeka (Digital Exhibits) 

Students in Dr. Sarah Ketchley’s LIS 598 explored concepts and methodologies of using digital tools for dataset creation, curation, and analysis, to answer research questions based on primary source documents and shared their findings in Omeka.  In this video, Dr. Ketchley share more about how she used Omeka in her class:

“I was delighted with the opportunity to work with Omeka. It provided the granularity and support I needed to teach.” – Dr. Sarah Ketchley

WordPress (Digital Project Presentation)

Overall, I have been most impressed by the ability to create upon the SPLOT format, and I believe other students would benefit greatly from its relatable nature as well. -Monica, UWT undergraduate student

 

Community Engaged Webdesign class at UWT. This is a community-engaged project with two UWT courses in collaboration with Catherine Place, a local Pierce County organization. 

Becoming a Learner. Students in a BCUSP 100 learning strategies class at UWB used a SPLOT WordPress template to bring artifacts and reflections together in an open site. The course explores themes such as engaged learning, communication, and time management; students were encouraged to share media that demonstrated their personal connections to these themes.  

Pressbooks (Open Educational Resources)

  • Designing Tech Policy. The University of Washington Tech Policy Lab’s Instructional Case Studies bridge engineering, technology, policy and ethics, and prompts participants to consider the socio-technical aspects of a setting and to engage in a design activity that involves both technical and policy design.
  • Black Lives Matter Collective Storytelling Project. A collaboration between two UW Tacoma courses where students participated in collective group discussions and produced written stories, videos, and other forms of creative work to explore their experiences as they related to race, racism, and racial justice. 
  • Persistence is Resistance. A collection celebrating 50 years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Contributors are a diverse group of scholars, from undergraduate students to emeritus, representing twenty-two institutions. Essays cover GWSS’s history, praxis, and implementation. Developed and edited by Dr. Julie Shayne, UWB. Includes a contribution by Dr. Judith Howard, UWS. 

“I wanted inviting, no paywall and an audience way bigger than those who wander book exhibits at academic conferences.”– Dr. Julie Shayne, “Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies: ‘Damn Straight, We Persisted,” Ms. Magazine, 8/17/2020.

Learn More

Survey previous Libraries’ blog posts on our digital scholarship infrastructure offerings:

Use These Tools

If you’re interested in learning more about these tools or working with them, please contact your campus digital scholarship lead:

 

  • UW Bothell: Denise Hattwig, Head of Digital Scholarship (dhattwig@uw.edu)
  • UW Seattle: Verletta Kern, Digital Scholarship Librarian (vkern@uw.edu) 
  • UW Tacoma: Erika Bailey, Data and Digital Scholarship Librarian(erikaab@uw.edu) 
  • Pressbooks:
    • UW Bothell: Denise Hattwig, Head of Digital Scholarship (dhattwig@uw.edu)
    • UW Seattle: Lauren Ray, Open Education Librarian (olray@uw.edu) 
    • Marisa Pertrich, Instructional Design Librarian (marisp2@uw.edu) 

 

We are happy to explore options for sharing your scholarship with these tools or working with you to incorporate these tools into your teaching!