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In addition, the digital library hosts the Pennsylvania Digital Library, a state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other cultural heritage organizations that provides an aggregated search interface for digital materials.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://padl.pitt.edu/ | title=Pennsylvania Digital Library | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Library System | accessdate=2011-08-28}}</ref>
In addition, the digital library hosts the Pennsylvania Digital Library, a state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other cultural heritage organizations that provides an aggregated search interface for digital materials.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://padl.pitt.edu/ | title=Pennsylvania Digital Library | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Library System | accessdate=2011-08-28}}</ref>


===Electronic journals===
===Electronic journal publishing program===

D-Scribe also contains over 20 scholarly journals published by the University Library System (ULS), University of Pittsburgh. Through this program, the ULS works with partners around the world to publish [[Peer Review|peer-reviewed]], international [[Open Access]] electronic journals.<ref name=blake-ejournals>{{cite news|last=Blake|first=Sharon|title=University of Pittsburgh Library System Offers Free E-Journal Publishing Service|url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=7206|accessdate=1 September 2011|newspaper=Pitt Chronicle|date=January 10, 2011}}</ref> Services offered include server and software hosting; graphic design services; consultation in editorial workflow management and best practices for electronic publishing; and [[ISSN]] and [[Digital Object Identifier|DOI]] registration.<ref>{{cite news|title=ULS offers free e-journal publishing|url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=14199|accessdate=1 September 2011|newspaper=University Times|date=November 24, 2010}}</ref> These services are offered free of charge in an effort to incentivize academic journal editors to publish their research results through free and [[Open Access]] for researchers worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|last=Deliyannides|first=Timothy|title=E-journal Publishing Strategies at Pitt|url=http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/6084/|work=Presentation presented at the IMLS Library Publishing Services Workshop, May 18-20, 2011, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN|accessdate=1 September 2011}}</ref> The publishing platform is based on [[Open Journal Systems]], free open source software developed by the [[Public Knowledge Project]] (PKP).<ref>{{cite web|title=ULS E-journal Publishing: Tools and Services|url=http://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals/tools.html|work=ULS Web site|publisher=University Library System, University of Pittsburgh|accessdate=1 September 2011}}</ref> Journals published in this program include:<ref name=uls-e-journals>{{cite web|title=ULS e-journal publications|url=http://www.library.pitt.edu/e-journals/pubs.html|work=ULS Web site|publisher=University Library System, University of Pittsburgh|accessdate=1 September 2011}}</ref>
*''[[Bolivian]] Studies Journal''<ref name=bsj>{{cite news|last=Blake|first=Sharon|title=Pitt Publishes New E-journal on Bolivian Studies|url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=7221|accessdate=1 September 2011|newspaper=Pitt Chronicle|date=Janurary 10, 2011}}</ref>
*''CINEJ Cinema Journal''
*''Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture''<ref name=contemporaneity>{{cite news|last=Blake|first=Sharon|title=Pitt Publishes, Seeks Contributions to Contemporaneity, a New E-Journal on Visual Culture|url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=8734|accessdate=1 September 2011|newspaper=Pitt Chronicle|date=June 20, 2011}}</ref>
*''EMAJ Emerging Markets Journal''
*''Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology''
*''Etudes Ricoeuriennes/[[Paul_Ricoeur|Ricoeur]] Studies (ERRS)''<ref>{{cite web|title=Ricœur Studies|url=http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&issn=21567808&genre=journal|work=Directory of Open Access Journals|publisher=Lund University Libraries|accessdate=16 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=ULS’s Ricoeur e-journal soliciting submissions|url=http://www.utimes.pitt.edu/?p=15287|accessdate=1 September 2011|newspaper=University Times|date=February 17, 2011}}</ref>
*''Excellence in Higher Education''<ref name=ehe>{{cite web|title=Consortium of Indonesian Universities-Pittsburgh Launches New E-Journal, Excellence in Higher Education|url=http://www.news.pitt.edu/news/consortium-indonesian-universities-pittsburgh-launches-new-e-journal-excellence-highe|work=Press Release|publisher=University of Pittsburgh|accessdate=1 September 2011}}</ref>
*''Health, Culture and Society''
*''IIOAB Letters''
*''International Journal of [[Telerehabilitation]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=International Journal of Telerehabilitation|url=http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&uiLanguage=en&hybrid=&query=Telerehabilitation|work=Directory of Open Access Journals|publisher=Lund University Libraries|accessdate=16 June 2011}}</ref>
*''Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy''<ref name=jffp>{{cite news|last=Blake|first=Sharon|title=Pitt Publishes New E-Journal on French Philosophy|url=http://www.chronicle.pitt.edu/?p=7991|accessdate=1 September 2011|newspaper=Pitt Chronicle|date=March 21, 2011}}</ref>
*''Motivational Interviewing: Training, Research, Implementation, Practice''
*''Revista Iberoamericana'', a journal of the literature, literary theory, and literary criticism in [[Latin American Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]].

The publication of eight additional journal titles is forthcoming, including ''The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies''; ''[[Journal of Law and Commerce]]''; ''[[Journal of Technology Law & Policy]]''; ''Pitt Political Review''; ''[[Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law]]''; ''[[Pittsburgh Tax Review]]''; ''Timely Interventions: A Translational Journal of Public Policy Debate''; and ''[[University of Pittsburgh Law Review]]''.<ref name=uls-e-journals/>


D-Scribe also hosts a number of peer-reviewed, international, and open access electronic journals. Journals hosted include the ''[[Bolivian]] Studies Journal'', ''Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture'', ''Ethnology'', ''Etudes Ricoeuriennes/ [[Paul_Ricoeur|Ricoeur]] Studies (ERRS)''<ref>{{cite web|title=Ricœur Studies|url=http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&issn=21567808&genre=journal|work=Directory of Open Access Journals|publisher=Lund University Libraries|accessdate=16 June 2011}}</ref>, the Industry Studies Working Paper Series, the ''International Journal of [[Telerehabilitation]]''<ref>{{cite web|title=International Journal of Telerehabilitation|url=http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals&uiLanguage=en&hybrid=&query=Telerehabilitation|work=Directory of Open Access Journals|publisher=Lund University Libraries|accessdate=16 June 2011}}</ref> the ''Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy'', and ''Revista Iberoamericana'', journal of the literature, literary theory, and literary criticism in [[Latin American Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]].


== References ==
== References ==

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The Library Resource Facility on Thomas Boulevard is home to the Digital Research Library of the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh

D-Scribe Digital Publishing is an open access electronic publishing program of the University Library System (ULS) of the University of Pittsburgh. It comprises over 100 thematic collections that together contain over 100,000 digital objects. These objects, most of which are available through open access, include both digitized versions of materials from the collections of the University of Pittsburgh and other local institutions as well as original 'born-electronic' content actively contributed by scholars worldwide.[1][2] D-Scribe includes such items as photographs, maps, books, journal articles, dissertations, government documents, and technical reports, along with over 500 previously out-of-print titles published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.[3][4] The digital publishing efforts of the University Library System began in 1998[5] and have won praise for their innovation from the leadership at the Association of Research Libraries and peer institutions.[6]

Major collections

Plate 256, Purple Heron, of Pitt's digitized collection of Audubon's The Birds of America

The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh has created various digital collections through its D-Scribe Digital Publishing program and has made them available to the public via the Internet. The following is a selection of the more prominent or larger collections available on-line.

19th Century Schoolbooks

A full-text digitized presentation of over 140 historic books in the 16,000 volume Neitz Old Textbook Collection.[7] The textbooks date from the 19th century and are fully searchable.[8]

Archive of European Integration

A digitized repository and archive of material dealing with European integration that focuses on the normalization of of relations of Eastern and Western Europe following the Cold War and the integration movements in West Europe that resulted in the European Community.[9] The Archives is contributed to by nearly 30 universities throughout Europe and America.[10] The AEI collects both independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents.

Audubon's Bird's of America

The University's complete double elephant folio set of John James Audubon's The Birds of America, one of only 120 complete sets of all 435 plates in existence, was preserved and restored over a five month process in 2000.[11][12] In 2007, along with the five volume set of Audubon's Ornithological Biography, the plates were digitized at high resolution and made available in one complete on-line collection.[13]

Darlington Digital Library

1630 map by Hendrik Hondius I that is part of the Darlington Digital Library

The Darlington Digital Library contains digitized materials from the Darlington Memorial Library. The Library is a major collection related to American history, particularly colonial American history in Western Pennsylvania. Digitized items included vintage atlases, books, broadsides, images, manuscripts, and maps.[14]

Dick Thornburgh Papers

Former Pennsylvania governor and United States Attorney General Dick Thornburgh donated his personal papers to the University of Pittsburgh in 1998.[15] Portions of the collection are digitized and arranged in twenty-one chronological sections, representing Thornburgh's life and career, each with introductory information about the point in time, the position held, and items of importance.

George Washington Manuscripts

A digitized collection of broadsides manuscripts, maps, images, and personal communications that depict George Washington's time in Western Pennsylvania at various points in his career.[16]

Historic Pittsburgh Collection

A VIew of the City of Pittsburgh in 1817, taken from a sketch by E. C. Gibson, is part of the Pittsburgh Prints Collection of D-Scribe's Historic Pittsburgh collection

This digital collection includes digitized historical resources on the history of Western Pennsylvania including texts, videos, maps, images, census records, and archival finding aids.[17] Included are over 25,000 images from multiple photographic collections that originated from a digitization project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and completed in 2004.[18] The presentation represents a collaboration between Pittsburgh-area libraries, museums and universities and includes historic material are derived from those held by the University of Pittsburgh's University Library System, the Library & Archives at the Heinz History Center, Chatham University Archives, Oakmont Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, and Point Park University Archives.[19][20]

Lillian Friedberg Postcard Collection

A digitized collection of postcards dealing with the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, World War II Allied and Nazi leadership propaganda, and French cartoons parodying Nazi leadership.[21]

University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions

The University of Pittsburgh Press Digital Editions is a collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh Press and the University Library System that has digitized 745 monographs in order make them freely available to the public via the internet. Mostly out-of-print titles, the collection includes full-searchable titles from the Pitt Latin American Series, Pitt Series in Russian, and East European Studies, and Composition, Literacy and Culture.[22]

Stephen Foster Sketchbook

A digitized and searchable presentation of Stephen Foster's sketchbook that contains 113 leaves with hand-written drafts for 64 different songs, including some unpublished ones, as well as other notations and doodles. The full sketchbook was digitized in Oxford in 2005, with the original stored in a vault at the University of Pittsburgh.[23]

Other collections

A 1790 color woodblock Japanese print by Utagawa Toyokuni depicting a night scene dual portrayed by actors Sawamura Gennosuke and Matsumoto Koshiro available in the Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection

The digital library includes many other collections of materials and photographs. Major themes include Asian studies, labor and socialist movement, philosophy, atlases, the Carnegie Museum of Art Collection of Photographs, and historic Pittsburgh photo archives. Also included are photo archives from various conferences and industries.

Asian studies collections

The ULS has digitized a variety of titles and artwork held in the university's East Asian Library. These include the Barry Rosensteel Japanese Print Collection; Tsukioka Kōgyo,The Art of Noh, 1869-1927; and Modern China Studies.

Industry photo archives

The digital archives includes photographic archives from various Western Pennsylvania companies including American Steel and Wire Company, CONSOL Energy Mining, H. J. Heinz Company, Lyon Shorb & Company, Mesta Machine Company, Otto's Suburban Dairy, Pittsburgh Railways Company, Rust Engineering Company, and Trimble Company.

Labor and socialist collections

Digitized repositories of Pittsburgh labor and socialist movements include the A.E. Forbes Communist Collection, American Left Ephemera Collection, the Cartoons of Fred Wright, the UE News Photograph Collection, the Union Switch & Signal Strike Photograph Collection, Stalinka: the Digital Library of Staliniana, as well as the Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Labor Legacy project.

Philosophy collections

The ULS has digitized portions of the collected paper of prominent philosophers, including Frank P. Ramsey and Wilfrid Sellars.

Archives and repositories

D-Scribe also contains various digitized archives and repositories. The Aphasiology Archive collection is an archive of papers presented at the annual Conference on Clinical Aphasiology. The Cleft Palate Journal Archive provides access to the past issues of The Cleft Palate Journal, published from 1964 through 1989, as a service to the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association.[24] The Minority Health & Health Equity Archive provides digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. The PhilSci-Archive is an archive for preprints in the philosophy of science that aids in the dissemination of new work.[25]

The volumes of the Allegheny Observatory's historic research are available via D-Scribe

Repositories for University of Pittsburgh research are also available through D-Scholarship@Pitt, that specializes in research output of the university that is indexed by major Internet search engines, as well as Electronic Theses and Dissertations that contain text-based and multimedia files of theses produced at Pitt. Other university materials available include the ten published volumes of star parallax data and calculations collected and produced by researchers working at the Allegheny Observatory between 1910 and 1969. These published reports, known as the Publications of the Allegheny Observatory of the University of Pittsburgh, contain data, methodology, presentations of new modes of star position calculation, and descriptions of observational instrumentation. The star parallax data in these volumes is still used for present day searches for extra-solar planets.[26] The digital library also has extensive digitized on-line collections of the university's archives including radio transcripts, speeches, year books, photos, athletic media guides, event programs, catalogues, books, and student and alumni publications[27]

In addition, the digital library hosts the Pennsylvania Digital Library, a state-wide metadata repository for digital resources created by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, educational institutions, and other cultural heritage organizations that provides an aggregated search interface for digital materials.[28]

Electronic journal publishing program

D-Scribe also contains over 20 scholarly journals published by the University Library System (ULS), University of Pittsburgh. Through this program, the ULS works with partners around the world to publish peer-reviewed, international Open Access electronic journals.[29] Services offered include server and software hosting; graphic design services; consultation in editorial workflow management and best practices for electronic publishing; and ISSN and DOI registration.[30] These services are offered free of charge in an effort to incentivize academic journal editors to publish their research results through free and Open Access for researchers worldwide.[31] The publishing platform is based on Open Journal Systems, free open source software developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).[32] Journals published in this program include:[33]

  • Bolivian Studies Journal[34]
  • CINEJ Cinema Journal
  • Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture[35]
  • EMAJ Emerging Markets Journal
  • Ethnology: An International Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology
  • Etudes Ricoeuriennes/Ricoeur Studies (ERRS)[36][37]
  • Excellence in Higher Education[38]
  • Health, Culture and Society
  • IIOAB Letters
  • International Journal of Telerehabilitation[39]
  • Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy[40]
  • Motivational Interviewing: Training, Research, Implementation, Practice
  • Revista Iberoamericana, a journal of the literature, literary theory, and literary criticism in Latin American Spanish and Portuguese.

The publication of eight additional journal titles is forthcoming, including The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies; Journal of Law and Commerce; Journal of Technology Law & Policy; Pitt Political Review; Pittsburgh Journal of Environmental and Public Health Law; Pittsburgh Tax Review; Timely Interventions: A Translational Journal of Public Policy Debate; and University of Pittsburgh Law Review.[33]


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