Digital Initiatives

Digital Initiatives supports global access to and preservation of resources reflecting USU’s curriculum, research, scholarship, and history. Our team can help you plan and implement digital projects, engage with Open Access and Open Educational Resources, explore emerging forms of scholarship, and enhance the impact of your teaching and research.

What We Do

Open Access

Learn more about Open Access and explore open publishing opportunities.

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Digtal Projects & Archiving

Get project support and explore the teaching and research potential of digital archives.

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Author Services

Learn how to increase the reach and impact of your work with scholarly . 

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Open Educational Resources

We help researchers adopt, adapt, or create open educational resources (OER) to support equity in access.

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Data Management

We help researchers understand data management, create data management plans, and find data repositories.

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Something punchy here. We provide services and instruction to support students and faculty across the entire research and teaching lifecycle.

  • Online archiving and preservation
  • Open access and open publishing
  • Affordable learning and Open Educational Resources (OER) 
  • Digitization and digital collections
  • Data management and preservation mandates
  • Digital humanities projects and platforms
  • Creating DOIs
  • Tracking and increasing research impact
  • Managing researcher IDs and online presence
  • Copyright, information equity, and author rights
  • Avoiding predatory publishers
  • Creating and hosting open access journals
  • Tools for managing conferences
  • Archiving dissertations/theses and other student work

Selected Projects & Partnerships

Digital Exhibit: The Usambara Project

“The Usambara Project” exhibit, curated by Dr. Chris Conte, examines the environmental and human histories of the Usambara mountains in Tanzania using photos taken in the same places 100 years apart. The exhibit compares these images side-by-side to highlight the past century’s changes and create an understanding of the region’s ongoing ecological restoration efforts. As the product of years of international collaboration, the exhibit is available in both Swahili and English.

Usambara Photo
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Dr. Arthur Caplan
Applied Economics

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Open Textbook: A Practicum in Behavioral Economics

Dr. Arthur Caplan from the Applied Economics Department has published his new practice-based textbook A Practicum in Behavioral Economics. This Open Educational Resource (OER) can be freely shared and modified, and helps readers learn about themselves—specifically about how they make private and public choices under experimental conditions—at the same time as they learn about the field of behavioral economics itself. This project was funded by an OER Creation Grant from USU Libraries and the College of Agriculture. 

Digital Exhibit: The Usambara Project

“The Usambara Project” exhibit, curated by Dr. Chris Conte, examines the environmental and human histories of the Usambara mountains in Tanzania using photos taken in the same places 100 years apart. The exhibit compares these images side-by-side to highlight the past century’s changes and create an understanding of the region’s ongoing ecological restoration efforts. As the product of years of international collaboration, the exhibit is available in both Swahili and English.

Usambara Photo

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Our Mission

Plan, implement, scale, and sustain digital technologies and practices that enable [USU] students, researchers, scholars, and their collaborators to function skillfully and competitively in a digital world.

Human-Centered Focus

Design and develop with a human-centered focus: Understand the USU environment and design services that conform to users’ needs and workflows.

Future-Ready

Create and sustain future-ready infrastructure: Assemble a scalable digital infrastructure that propels USU’s preservation of, creation of, and access to knowledge.

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Digital Leadership

Inspire and empower excellence in digital leadership: Establish and share repeatable digital governance principles, processes, and best practices to enable and steer innovations and global collaboration.

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