Digital Scholarship Services (DSS)
Digital Scholarship Services encompasses three areas:
- ScholarWorks@UMBC: We help faculty, staff, and students add works to ScholarWorks including publications, creative works, theses and dissertations.
- Scholarly publishing, copyright and open access: DSS has provided LibGuides on each of these topics and is available for questions.
- Digital Scholarship Topics: We can provide information and guidance on a range of digital scholarship topics such as ORCID and Research Data Management.
Questions? Contact us at: 410-455-3544
Email Digital Scholarship Services at flinchba@umbc.edu
ScholarWorks@UMBC
ScholarWorks@UMBC is a digital repository or institution repository with works authored by UMBC community members (faculty, staff, and students), and works about UMBC, UMBC departments and programs, and UMBC people.
Search ScholarWorks
Browse or Search UMBC thesis and dissertations
Submit works to flinchba@umbc.edu (library staff do it for you)
Submit works (Do-It-Yourself Submissions Guide)
Ask questions or express concerns to scholarworks-group@umbc.edu
Request a withdrawal by emailing mdsoar-help@umd.edu
Theses and Dissertations
Information on preparing your thesis and dissertation and submitting it to Proquest is available from the Graduate school. DSS automatically receives all UMBC thesis and dissertations submitted to Proquest and loads them into ScholarWorks@UMBC. There is usually a one to two year delay after submission to Proquest before it appears in ScholarWorks. Your document will only be freely available world-wide if you’ve selected “I authorize access” on Thesis and Dissertation Electronic Publication Form. If you’ve selected “I request that UMBC embargo,” your document will only appear after the embargo period has ended. If you didn’t fill out a Thesis and Dissertation Electronic Publication Form, your document is not accessible, but if you complete the form now, and email it to DSS (flinchba@umbc.edu), we’ll make it available. If you have questions or concerns, Contact us at: 410-455-3544 or email Digital Scholarship Services (flinchba@umbc.edu).
Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, and Open Access
DSS provides information on scholarly publishing, copyright, and open access. Note that information provided on copyright isn’t legal advice. In addition to the information provided below, DSS will provide information to help you make decisions in these areas if you have questions. Contact us at: 410-455-3544 or email Digital Scholarship Services (flinchba@umbc.edu).
Digital Scholarship Topics
ORCID
ORCID provides an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from other researchers. You can connect your iD with your professional information — affiliations, grants, publications, peer review, and more. You can use your iD to connect to other systems, saving you time. DSS has provided ORCID help information and will answer your questions Contact us at: 410-455-3544 or email Digital Scholarship Services (flinchba@umbc.edu).
UMBC Faculty Expert Search Tool
Created by the Office of Institutional Advancment and DoIT, the UMBC Faculty Expert Search Tool provides information on faculty members’ expertise by pulling information from Digital Measures. Faculty have to opt-in by making their information visible. Visit umbc.edu/go/directory-info and under Profile Format select Digital Measures. Then in Digital Measures, select which information you want to show in your profile by going “show in profile” and selecting your preferences. Full instructions are available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eta4ftwKz-3GY80j7SkpBxvpDZk8gfjgDAYOGX6qA2w/edit#.
Research Data
DSS provide information on where to find data, and how to cite data. Additionally, we have information on topics in research data management, such as data management plans, documentation, file organization and version control. Finally we provide information on several free tools for data integration, analysis and visualization.
Lab Archives
UMBC has an institutional subscription to Lab Archives. It allows you to organize and share your research notes and data with your research group so that you can easily work together and communicate. It includes access control, change history, disaster-recovery back-ups, and more. For free access via the UMBC subscription using your myUMBC login, when you login, select UMBC from the list of institutions with single sign-on access.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
UMBC has a membership in ICSPR, an international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations. ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSRmaintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences.
UMBC’s membership gives all authorized library users free full access. Be sure you use your UMBC email address when creating an account to be authenticated as a member.
ICPSR offers:
