The Libraries are happy to announce our second round of OpenHawks funding, available to any faculty member or graduate student who is interested in using or developing Open Educational Resources (OER) for a UI course. If you are concerned about the cost or quality of your existing textbooks and would like to explore OER, thisContinue reading “Considering OER? Get some funding with OpenHawks!”
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Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) now available to UI researchers
The University of Iowa is now an institutional member of QDR (Qualitative Data Repository) . The QDR membership gives faculty and other researchers a platform to store and share their qualitative data and enhances campus efforts for providing Research Data Services. “QDR is a dedicated archive for storing and sharing digital data (and accompanying documentation)Continue reading “Qualitative Data Repository (QDR) now available to UI researchers”
DOIs for Theses and Dissertations
All theses and dissertations in Iowa Research Online have now been assigned DOIs. DOIs, or Digital Object Identifiers, are unique and persistent IDs for electronically published documents. DOIs will be used by publications citing your thesis/dissertation, so that there will be better information about where your work has been cited. Using a DOI also allowsContinue reading “DOIs for Theses and Dissertations”