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About DSPS Press

The goal of the DSPS Press is to share information about the projects and collaborations of the Cornell University Library’s Digital Scholarship & Preservation Services unit and invite comments and questions about our work.

About DSPS

The DSPS program facilitates collaborations within the Cornell University community in the creation and management of digital scholarly content and tools to support learning, teaching, and research. The program also enables sharing of content through online repositories such as e-publishing systems or institutional and subject repositories. Program staff work closely with the Library’s IT group in developing technical solutions and collaborate with the Library’s departmental liaisons and subject specialists in identifying needs and delivering services. Staff collaborate with Cornell Information Technologies’ academic technology services in facilitating the integration of technologies to support learning and teaching.

DSPS Org Chart & Contact InformationDSPSSROrgChartAug2017

DSPS SR Open House Slides

In collaboration with several other CUL units, the program offers the following services:

  • Conservation Services – operations that are responsible for the conservation treatment and restoration of rare and unique library and archive materials. See the department’s blog at http://blogs.cornell.edu/culconservation/
  • Digital Consulting and Production Services to provide a unified service point for digitization, metadata, copyright & intellectual property rights, e-publishing, delivery platforms & repositories (http://dcaps.library.cornell.edu).  For instance, developing and supporting the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences (http://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/a&sgrants), coordinating CUL’s digitization partnership with Google, facilitating print-on-demand through Amazon, coordinating a common portal for copyright information for the Cornell community (copyright.cornell.edu).
  • Scholarly Communication Services – requirements analysis, business planning, policy development, assessment, user support for arXiv (http://arxiv.org), eCommons (https://ecommons.cornell.edu/), Euclid (http://www.projecteuclid.org/), and e-publishing initiatives (http://cip.cornell.edu). For instance, arXiv sustainability program (http://arxiv.org/help/support) or facilitating collaborations with the Cornell University Press
  • Preservation & Archiving – policies, workflows, business models.  For instance, coordinating our partnership with HathiTrust  – http://www.hathitrust.org and collaborating with CUL IT on developing an archival repository for preserving the library’s digital assets (in development)
  • User Experience – User interface & user experience design, usability, accessibility, CUL templates/branding
  • Liaison to CIT & Center for Teaching Excellence for academic technology (such as course websites, course content archiving, digital literacies, etc.) strategy development, and service coordination & delivery

DSPS MANAGEMENT TEAM

Oya Y. Rieger, Associate University Librarian & arXiv Program Director  RiegerCV

Digitization & Conservation
Tre Berney, Director

Copyright Services
Amy Dygert, Director

Digital Curation
Michelle Paolillo, Lead

Scholarly Communication Services
Gail Steinhart, Scholarly Communication Librarian

User Experience & Administrative Services
Mary Beth Lyons, Director

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