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Digital Collections

Image Collection Library

http://www.library.umass.edu/icl/

The Image Collection Library (ICL) assists faculty and students in the transition from analog to digital image technology in the classroom and provides digital image resources for the UMass Amherst campus community.

We provide access to image databases and teach image discovery techniques for our users.
We acquire images in all subjects and disciplines for our own image databases.
We provide consultation and assistance for faculty members who maintain their own image collections.

InterNano

http://www.internano.org

InterNano is a project of the National Nanomanufacturing Network supported by the University Libraries and the NSF-funded Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing at UMass Amherst. InterNano supports the information needs of the nanomanufacturing community by bringing together resources about the advances in applications, devices, metrology, and materials that will facilitate the commercial development and/or marketable application of nanotechnology.

Internet Archive Partnership

http://www.archive.org/details/opencontentalliance

The UMass Amherst Libraries are participating in Boston Library Consortium partnership with the Internet Archive. This partnership aims to build an open, non-profit, non-exclusive library of digital material from the 19 BLC member libraries. It is the first large-scale consortium to embark on such a self-funded digitization project. The Libraries are currently working to identify materials in our collections to digitize. The Northeast Regional Scanning Center located in the Boston Public Library is managing the project.

Focus on the following OCA digitization priorities:
- Unique materials in Special Collections and University Archives
- Local history books
- Agricultural publications, especially Agricultural Experiment Station materials to build a corpus of digitized materials for Massachusetts and the New England Region
- Massachusetts state documents
- Orphan works
- Pre-1923 books that are unique to UMass Amherst in the general circulating collection
Create links to the digitized version in the online catalog to facilitate discovery of materials.

ScholarWorks

http://scholarworks.umass.edu/

ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst is the digital repository for the research and scholarly output of members of the UMass Amherst community. It is administered by the UMass Amherst Libraries.

To capture, preserve, and disseminate the scholarly output of UMass Amherst, including the works of faculty, researchers, and students.
Types of materials collected include journal articles (with copyright permissions), pre and post prints, book chapters, Ph.D. dissertations, masters theses and other masters projects, conference proceedings and presentations, data sets, multimedia, grey literature and a wide variety of other content types.
Types of materials created include electronic journals, conference materials (programs, posters, etc) and proceedings, peer-reviewed series and reports

Special Collections & University Archives

http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/

The Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) collects materials of enduring historical and cultural value relating to the history and experience of social change in America, the histories and cultures of New England, and the history of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

SCUA’s digital content includes:

Approximately 15,000 still images from our University Photographs Collection, the W.E.B. Du Bois Papers, and other select collections
100 anti-slavery pamphlets dating from the time between the Revolution and the American Civil War, and printed works in the history of agriculture and local history of Massachusetts
Documents from the early history of UMass
Audio and video files ranging from lectures on campus to oral histories

Last Edited: 21 September 2009