Digital Scholarship Services

DSS supports 3 platforms for publishing digital content: 1) the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive, which offers features for long-term preservation and is suitable for research publications (e.g. articles, reports and journals), audio/video, cultural heritage collections, and more; 2) Shared Shelf, which is geared toward managing image collections; and 3) Omeka, which focuses on cultural heritage collections and exhibits. Contact cds@rice.edu for more information.
 

DSS provides Rice faculty, staff, and students with Rice-specific and general information about open access and copyright.

Rice University supports open access (OA) in a number of ways:

• Rice Open Access Policy

• Financial support for OA publishing

• Rice Digital Scholarship Archive

Additional information about Rice’s OA initiatives can be found at http://openaccess.rice.edu/

Copyright services include:

• Assistance with navigating copyright status, fair use analysis, and obtaining permission for reuse.

• Consultation on managing copyright and author rights.

• Customized copyright education programs for the Rice community.

• Referral, when appropriate, to other offices at Rice.

In addition, Fondren Library maintains a number of different copyright and author rights resources:

• Copyright and Fair Use Research Guide    

  • Copyright Supplementary Information

• Finding and Using Images in Publications   

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Note that we cannot provide legal advice; services are informational only.

Contact us at cds@rice.edu

How will you ensure that you can access and use digital files in the future? DSS advises on digital preservation methods, assists researchers in locating appropriate repositories for their datasets, and acts as the custodian of collections in the Rice Digital Scholarship Archive. We also help scholars and journals provide permanent links to online content by serving as a registrar for Perma.cc.

DSS staff have experience writing and reviewing grant applications, developing detailed project plans, and helping to manage projects from start to finish. Schedule an appointment to discuss your digital project idea by contacting cds@rice.edu.
 

Need to convert materials into digital formats? DSS can help you digitize everything from oversized maps to multimedia materials. Fondren Library’s Digital Curation Lab contains an Indus Large Format Scanner, which can handle items up to 50 inches x 36 inches. We also consult on describing materials, processing images and scanned text, and developing an efficient workflow.

Organizing and analyzing information can be overwhelming. DSS can help you identify appropriate tools and develop workflows for conducting digital research. We offer particular expertise in bibliographic tools such as Zotero and research workflow tools such as Open Science Framework.

Ensure that other researchers know about your work. DSS offers consulting, training and support for developing an online scholarly identity, tracking your research impact, creating a unique ORCID identifier and more.