Engage in conversations that advance knowledge about how academic research is created, disseminated, and shared, while collaborating with the campus community to provide expertise in digital scholarship. Support students and faculty who are exploring authors’ rights, data curation and management, digital humanities, electronic theses and dissertations, copyright issues, geographic information systems, learning management systems, open access publishing, open educational resources, scholarly repositories, and other emerging scholarship formats. Examples of digital scholarship and communications activities include:
- Stay abreast of advances in digital scholarship, tools and resources in general and subject area specifically
- Promote the concept of reproducible research, provide advice to faculty and students about data management plans and documenting best practices for data curation
- Consult with students and faculty on their digital projects collaborate with library colleagues, especially within the libraries, e.g., DiSC
- Educate and inform faculty, graduate students, and campus administrators about the fundamentals of intellectual property, advocate for authors’ rights and promote the use of permissive copyright licenses
- Work with instructors on fair use analysis and interpreting the university's copyright policy for course management systems
- Encourage campus members to utilize the institutional repository
- Consult with instructors on finding and creating OER materials
