Digital Initiatives at the Mansfield Library provides several services to help University of Montana (UM) faculty, students, and staff share and manage their research and creative scholarship. These services include:

• Open Access Initiatives
  • Provision of open access faculty, student, and staff scholarship via ScholarWorks (UM's institutional repository)
  • Digital scholarly publishing, including customized journal and conference hosting
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
  • OER library guide
  • Concierge OER Discovery Service to help faculty find OER for their courses
  • Transform Your Teaching with Open Educational Resources (requires NetID login)
• Copyright and Creative Commons Licensing
  • Assistance with understanding copyright, Creative Commons licenses, Open Access, and authors’ rights
• Research Data Management
  • Research data management basics, archiving, and access
  • Assistance with data management plans
• Scholarly Reputation and Impact
  • Reports and visual dashboards that measure and help communicate impact and use of UM research and scholarship

ScholarWorks: These services are provided in association with ScholarWorks, UM's institutional repository. ScholarWorks centralizes, preserves, and provides free, online access to the valuable research, creative scholarship, and unique resources produced and curated by UM faculty, students, and staff. ScholarWorks makes these resources easier to find, share, and use, both expanding the reach and increasing the impact of UM scholarship around the world. ScholarWorks accepts all discrete file types and can therefore accommodate traditional scholarship forms (documents, spreadsheets, presentations, etc.) as well as audio, video, image, and discipline-specific file types and formats.

Contact Wendy Walker, Digital Initiatives Librarian, if you have questions or would like to discuss a research project or your scholarship.