We are excited to announce a new library guide to Public Writing! Public writing is an important part of digital scholarship and public engagement. Public writing connects scholars and researchers with the communities who inform and are impacted by their work. Public writing is an art that involves translating academic language and research into writing that is accessible and engaged in public spaces outside of academia. Public writing is an essential aspect of sharing research broadly, and an essential aspect of connecting, informing, and persuading. The Library’s Public Writing guide, created by Denise Hattwig and Dr. Julie Shayne, with contributions…
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Digital Scholarship Services in the Library: 2022-2023
The Library offers a suite of digital scholarship services for faculty and students. We’re here to help with your open scholarship and publishing, open pedagogy, and sharing research with new publics. The UW Libraries also provides hosting services for your digital scholarship, with platforms such as Pressbooks, Omeka, WordPress, and more…
Digital Scholarship Services in the Library: 2021-2022
The Library offers a suite of digital scholarship services for faculty and students. We’re here to help with your open scholarship and publishing, open pedagogy, and sharing research with new publics. The UW Libraries also provides hosting services for your digital scholarship, with platforms such as Pressbooks, Omeka, WordPress, and more. Some Digital Scholarship services offered by the Library include: Project visioning and planning Choosing tools and platforms Sharing research and scholarship with communities and publics Open pedagogy tools, assignment design, and teaching collaboration Open Access publishing And more! Heading into Fall (or any time!) please let us know if…
Open Hosting Digital Scholarship Platforms are Here to Stay
The UW Libraries has 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 UW Libraries’ permanent service offerings! The UW Bothell Library looks forward to supporting you in creating knowledge and sharing it openly through digital means with these platforms. Please read on to see sample projects created over the past two years through our pilot and to learn more about getting started with these platforms! Explore How can YOU…
Resource Highlight: Open Student Work Guide
A powerful approach to both digital scholarship and pedagogy includes foregrounding and openly publishing student work. The Library’s Open Student Work Guide can help! Open student work is an opportunity for students to create tangible products that they can share, gain experience with engaging in public conversations, and potentially connect with community partners or learn new technologies. But student agency must be centered in processes and products when working in open pedagogy and open scholarship environments. Students have the right to control their own intellectual property in all cases. The Library encourages a student learning component around open scholarship and publishing…
Teaching with Digital Scholarship Tools and Methods
The Library’s Digital Scholarship Guide now has ideas for teaching with digital scholarship tools and methods. Check out the guide to find out more about: Digital scholarship tools offered by the Libraries, Using digital scholarship tools for teaching and learning, Examples at UWB and other institutions…
How WordPress Templates Can Transform Your Online Teaching This Fall!
Calling all instructors! Are you looking for opportunities to teach digital and public scholarship skills in your classroom? Are you looking for alternatives to the traditional research paper? We’ve got you covered with WordPress site templates! WordPress templates are simple to set up and can be as easy to use as filling out a simple form. Templates (with examples from other institutions) include: Tru Collector, which collects student images and descriptions through a form submission and compiles them into a WordPress site. See Animal Body Plans and Online Ecosystem Maps as examples. Tru Writer, which collects short student essays through…
