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.
Getting Started
We’re here to help! Contact us to learn more about digital projects, all things open, author services, and more.
What We Do
Open Access
Learn more about Open Access and explore open publishing opportunities.
Digtal Projects & Archiving
Get project support and explore the teaching and research potential of digital archives.
Author Services
Learn how to increase the reach and impact of your work with scholarly .
Open Educational Resources
We help researchers adopt, adapt, or create open educational resources (OER) to support equity in access.
Data Management
We help researchers understand data management, create data management plans, and find data repositories.
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.
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.
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.See the Circulation Desk to access.