Join us this Wednesday, October 6 for another Domains and Websites workshop! Register here. Faculty, students, and staff are welcome to join. The informal workshop is tailored to what participants come to learn or do!
Category: Open Access
Domains & Websites Workshops
Drop into our biweekly virtual workshops to show off a digital project you’re working on and gain feedback, learn how to make your own website, or troubleshoot as you develop your site. Domain of One’s Own is our hosting system for many web applications used for class projects and open scholarly publishing, including WordPress, PressBooks,…
Using Omeka for Digital Collections + Omeka Workshop this Friday
In July, a project team including Digital Scholarship Fellow Ariella R. Rotramel, Assistant Director for Digital Scholarship Lyndsay Bratton, and Digital Scholarship Assistant Lydia Klein ‘22 attended the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship to focus on the oral history aspects of Rotramel’s Sexing Service project. Working with a liaison from Kenyon College, who has…
Funding Available for Digital Projects
Following Monday’s post on services available in the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, we would like to spotlight the funding available through the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program. In collaboration with the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, the DSCC supports faculty scholarship involving digital tools and open publishing. Past and current projects include oral…
Back-to-School: What the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center (DSCC) Can Do for You
We are looking forward to welcoming everyone back to campus this month and would like to highlight all the services available at the Digital Scholarship & Curriculum Center, located on the lower level of Shain Library. The DSCC is staffed weekdays from 8:30am-5pm during the semester and 8:30am-4pm during the summer and breaks. Please feel…
Ariella Rotramel Named Digital Scholarship Fellow
The DSCC is pleased to announced that Vandana Shiva Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies Ariella Rotramel is joining the Digital Scholarship Fellows Program to work on two projects related to sex work. As part of their research on casino cocktail waitressing in Atlantic City, Ariella will conduct an oral history project that…
Opportunity to attend the University of Victoria’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DSHI) for free online in June
Each June, the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada hosts the largest, longest-running Digital Humanities Summer Institute, which offers about 40-50 intensive week-long workshops on a wide variety of tools, methods, and topics related to the digital humanities. As a two-time past participant, I can highly recommend this professional development opportunity for faculty interested…
Open Educational Resources Grant 2020-21
The Connecticut College Open Educational Resources Grant is now open for applications. The grant provides funding and staff support to faculty who wish to create or integrate OER into a course. Funding is generously supported by the Office of the Dean of Faculty, Academic Resource Center, Office of the Dean of Students, and Information Services…
Happy Open Access Week 2020!
The theme for Open Access Week, October 19-25, is “Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion.” Open Access allows for the unrestricted sharing of scholarly research and offers an alternative to a traditional subscription model that is costly and hidden behind a paywall. It has the potential to greatly accelerate the…
Writing and Publishing an Open Textbook
Are you considering creating an open textbook for a course? Ideal for online and traditional learning environments, open educational resources allow for faculty innovation while increasing student access and cost savings. There are many online tools available to guide the process and research support and curricular technology staff can assist in all steps of the…
