UC Irvine Libraries Digital Scholarship Service

• Expose your research to more audiences and enhance its discoverability
• Collaborate with other researchers and share your data
• Support the creation of new knowledge
• Fulfill grant requirements for making research available in open-access sites
• Ensure persistent, long-term access to materials to whoever needs them, whenever needed
• 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
• Capture the intellectual products of UCI-sponsored conferences and seminars
• Enhance teaching and learning with shared digital spaces for storing, managing, and distributing unique materials
• 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.

Subject Librarians may 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:

• UC eScholarship
  Start self-publishing now with UC eScholarship. eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services for scholarly journals, preprints/postprints, conference proceedings, seminar series, and more. Also offers peer-review systems, persistent access, and preservation services.
• 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.). 
• Support for Data Management Plans
  Develop data management plans for grant applications and learn more about options for sharing research data.
• Support for Image Management
  Store and share your research and teaching images.
• 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, and author's rights.
• 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.

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.