Digital Scholarship and Initiatives

Digital Scholarship and Initiatives (DSI), a division within Belk Library & Information Commons, engages and collaborates with library partners, campus, and community to support new scholarship in a rapidly changing digital landscape. DSI provides and sustains innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, data curation, and preservation. Learn more about DSI.

Our Services

Digital Scholarship
  • Project planning and consulting for building digital collections & exhibits
  • Training & support for building collections in Omeka

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Digital Preservation & Access
  • Digitization of analog materials, including audiovisual material
  • Long-term data preservation for digital materials

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Copyright, Fair Use, & IP
  • Rights and responsibilities when using copyrighted material
  • Intellectual property rights for authors

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Scholarly Communications & Publishing
  • Information on Open Access
  • Appalachian's Open Journals Program
  • NC DOCKS Institutional Repository

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Featured Project

Garden Creek Virtual Exhibit

Created by Cameron Blumhardt for an undergraduate departmental honors thesis project, the Garden Creek virtual exhibit explores novel approaches for creating and curating virtual museums specifically for small-scale archaeological excavations.

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Digital Collections

"Ibex" illustration from Beulah Campbell Collection

DSI supports many digital collections at Appalachian State University and contributes materials to digital collections outside the university such as Digital NC.

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News

still from DocuAppalachia: A half century focus on the environment

Documentary Film at Appalachian State University

May 26, 2022
Book cover of Monuments to Absences by keynote speaker Dr. Andy Denson

Tourism in Appalachia: A Public Presentation Highlighting Collections and Research on the Tourism Industry and Its Impact on the Appalachian Region

Mar 28, 2022
DSI team members on Zoom

DSI Wins NDSA Organizational Excellence Award

Nov 19, 2021
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