Brown using $1.3M grant to preserve faculty publications digitally

BROWN UNIVERSITY will use a new $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to preserve faculty publications digitally.
BROWN UNIVERSITY will use a new $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to preserve faculty publications digitally.

PROVIDENCE – Brown University will use a new $1.3 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to preserve faculty publications digitally.
The so-called “digital scholarship initiative” will support digital development, publication and preservation of university publications, particularly long-form digital work by faculty in the humanities and humanistic social sciences, the university said in a press release.
The university library and office of the dean of faculty will oversee the initiative, the school said.
“With this new initiative, Brown will do far more than merely signal its commitment to supporting faculty working on digital projects,” said Kevin McLaughlin, dean of the faculty. “It will spearhead an effort at building an approach to digital publication at the level of the academic institution that can become a model for universities — not just to support, but to promote the recognition of important new modes of scholarship certain to play increasingly important roles in the future of scholarship and its dissemination.”
The grant will be used to hire a digital scholarly editor to support digital scholarship. Brown will build and test a prototype system for digital publications that includes editorial and specialized design assistance, dissemination and preservation services and new systems of peer review and scholarly validation, the university said.
“Digital scholarship has deep roots at Brown and over time, the university library has become a core supporter for this type of work, especially in the humanities,” Harriette Hemmasi, university librarian, said in a statement. “The Mellon grant will extend the library’s capabilities as a central force in advancing new forms and methods of scholarly communication at Brown and beyond.”

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