UM Libraries eScholarship open digital publishing platform hub to share multimedia projects and research
The University of Manitoba Libraries is now accepting proposals for publishing on its new open digital publishing platform, eScholarship.
eScholarship is a new site that aims to provide faculty and students with tools for creating and sharing research digitally. eScholarship is powered by the open-source Manifold publishing platform.
Hosted by University of Manitoba Libraries, the eScholarship site provides readers access to a variety of different open publications, open educational resources and more.
The platform makes it easy to incorporate multimedia elements into text-based publications, and provides secure, long-term storage for publications.
When UM history professor Adele Perry came across a blog post from two Canadian historians about their textbooks going out of print, she thought they would be a good fit for the eScholarship platform.
UM Libraries was able to give the textbooks a new life by helping publish them on the eScholarship platform. Origins and Destinies by Canadian historians Robert Wardhaugh [PhD/95] and Alan MacEachern are now available for free online.
Many different kinds of multimedia projects can be published with the eScholarship platform. Some of the projects published or in the process of being published on eScholarship include:
Other open publishing platforms the Libraries provides include Open Journal Systems (OJS), a scholarly journal platform, and MSpace, UM’s institutional repository.
Learn more about the Libraries open publishing platforms and services.
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