Center for Digital Scholarship

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has issued a Request for Information (RFI), asking individuals and organizations to provide recommendations on approaches for broad public access and long-term stewardship of peer-reviewed scholarly publications that result from federally funded scientific research.

For more information, see the KU Call to Action page.

How you can help: Respond to the RFI by January 12, 2012

You can assist this effort by responding to the RFI. The deadline for submissions is January 12, 2012. The eight questions and submission instructions are posted here: http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2011/11/04/2011-28623/request-for-information-public-access-to-peer-reviewed-scholarly-publications-resulting-from. Submissions should be sent via email to publicaccess@ostp.gov.

Thank you for your commitment to public access and the advancement of these crucial policies.

KU ScholarWorks reached a milestone in the month of November: There have now been over 1 million views and 1 million downloads of KU ScholarWorks items.

Also, congratulations to the authors of the 10 most popular items in KU ScholarWorks during November, 2011, including four dissertations! The top 10 listing is now available on the KU ScholarWorks web site.

November 16th is the tenth annual GIS Day @ KU. This day-long free symposium will be held in the Kansas Union on the University of Kansas campus. We invite students, staff, faculty from KU and beyond, GIS professionals, and anyone interested in GIS or maps to come for all or part of the day. Please register at: http://www.gis.ku.edu/gisday/2011/.

KU Libraries will host a week of events for KU faculty, graduate students, and others who want to learn how open access to scholarship affects them as authors and scholars and citizens.  Please see http://www.lib.ku.edu/openaccess/OAweek2011.shtml for details about the events scheduled during Open Access Week, including a panel discussion featuring three experts on open access and scholarly publishing:

• During January of 2012 the American Historical Association will hold their annual conference on the theme Communities and Networks. Many of the sessions involve topics of interest to the digital humanities.  Early registration ends after December 19th.  http://www.historians.org/annual/2012/index.cfm The American Historical Association blog, AHA Today, is a wonderful place to keep updated on digital collections in the world of history, both in and out of the academy. http://blog.historians.org/
• For KU students, faculty, and staff, KU Libraries has added over 800 new images to the Classical Heritage Image Collection in LUNA from the slide collection of the Department of Classics.   http://luna.ku.edu:8180/luna/servlet/kuvc1csc~1~1?cic=kuvc1csc~1~1

Congratulations to the authors of the 10 most popular items in KU ScholarWorks during September, 2011!  The top 10 listing is now available on the KU ScholarWorks web site.

The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities will be holding their Fall 2011 Digital Humanities Forum at the Kansas Union and at Watson Library, September 22-24.

We currently have over 90 registered participants from KU and throughout the midwest. In addition to many presenters from KU, the program includes presenters from Kings College, London; Emory University; the Universities of Texas, Michigan, North Carolina, Illinois, Pittsburgh and others; the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education. The Forum will also feature a keynote talk by noted electronic text and markup specialist Michael Sperberg-McQueen at the Spencer Museum of Art on Friday, Sept. 23 at 4:30pm (followed by a reception).

The Forum consists of three separate but related programs held over three days:

(1) THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, WORKSHOPS: a set of 10 workshops on digital tools and other DH topics. (LOCATION: KANSAS UNION) – see full descriptions here:

(2) FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, THATCamp: an “unconference” for technologists and humanists. (LOCATION: WATSON LIBRARY)

(3) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, REPRESENTING KNOWLEDGE IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES: a one-day program of panels and poster sessions (LOCATION: KANSAS UNION)

All events are free and open to KU and non-KU partcipants, but space is limited (especially for the workshops) so please register if you would like to attend). If you are unable to join us in person, you can follow along online, as we expect there to be plenty of tweeting, blogging, and online collaboration!

The full schedule of workshops and panel presentations is online at: http://kansas2011.thatcamp.org/schedule.

The GIS and Data Lab provides quiet work space for and assistance with class  projects and research involving geographic information systems, as well as statistical computing.  Computers in the Lab are loaded with detailed and pre-formatted GIS datasets for Lawrence and Douglas County, KS.

This ArcMap project includes approximately twenty different geospatial layers, such as bus routes, parcels, zoning, bike routes, and contour lines- for use in the Lab. The Lab is on the first level of Anschutz Library, and consultation space is also available in the new Center for Digital Scholarship on the Fourth floor of Watson Library. For more information visit: www.lib.ku.edu/gis. 

Congratulations to the authors of the 10 most popular items in KU ScholarWorks for July, 2011!  The top 10 listing is now available on the KU ScholarWorks web site.