UC Irvine Libraries Digital Scholarship Service

Subject Librarians will assist UCI faculty and research staff in identifying the most appropriate service for publishing, sharing, and/or archiving the digital products of their research.  The Libraries most commonly recommend the following services:

• Scholarly Communication and Management Program
  Participate in a community dialogue on a wide range of scholarly communication issues that impact teaching and research. This campuswide program provides links to resources on open access, NIH policies, NSF mandates, and author's rights.

Organizing Your Research Data

• Support for managing research data and data management plans for grant applications.
• Support for Image Management
  Store and share your research and teaching images.
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  View and analyze data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
• Web Archiving Service
  Capture and archive internet sites and other web-based publications for long-term access.

Publishing Your Research

• UC eScholarship
  Start publishing the full range of your scholarship with UC eScholarship. eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services for scholarly journals, books, preprints/postprints, conference proceedings, seminar series, and more. Also offers peer-review systems, persistent access, and preservation services for publications, video formats, and data files.
• UCIspace @ the Libraries
  Publish, manage, and preserve your scholarly output in an open access platform supported by the Libraries. Submissions are accepted on a case-by-case basis, and include a wide variety of digital materials (e.g., audio, video, images, data, text-based research collections, etc.). 

Acknowledgement and Sharing Your Research

• EZID
  A service to create and manage unique, long-term identifiers for texts, datasets, images, and other formats.
• DataUp
  An open source tool helping researchers document, manage, and archive their tabular data.

These services are just some of the options for digital publishing available to UCI faculty or research staff. Subject Librarians may also recommend services unique to your discipline.  To explore these or other services further, please contact your Subject Librarian or the Libraries Digital Scholarship Team.

Helping Foster New Research

• Expose your research to more audiences and enhance its discoverability
• Collaborate with other researchers and share your data
• Support the creation of new knowledge

Distributing Your Findings

• Gain more control over the publishing of your research content
• Integrate access with a wide variety of research materials, thus promoting new discoveries, connections, and understandings
• Enhance teaching and learning with shared digital spaces for storing, managing, and distributing unique materials

• Fulfill grant requirements for making research available in open-access sites
• Ensure persistent, long-term access to materials to whoever needs them, whenever needed
• Capture the intellectual products of UCI-sponsored conferences and seminars
• Boost the influence of UCI as a research institution by making research output openly available to scholars worldwide

To explore the Libraries Digital Scholarship Service further, please contact your Subject Librarian or the Libraries Digital Scholarship Team.