Digital Scholarship Projects at the NCSU Libraries

The NCSU Digital Repository

The NCSU Digital Repository consists of three digital collections that highlight and archive the scholarly works of NC State researchers.

Scholarly Publications Repository: A growing collection of citations and full text of scholarly works by NC State faculty members, graduate students, and research staff.

Technical Report Series Collection: Technical report series published by NC State’s colleges, departments, institutes, and research centers.

Electronic Theses & Dissertations: NC State ETDs completed since 2002, with partial coverage for 1997-2002. Earlier theses & dissertations are available via the catalog.

If you would like to submit your works in these collections, or have any other questions, please write to repository@ncsu.edu.

Digitization Projects

Open Content Alliance: The Libraries has joined the Open Content Alliance (OCA) partnership to digitize its print holdings that are in the public domain. The partnership enables the Libraries to greatly expand access to its own print holdings through digitization while also enabling digital access to the content of other partner libraries.

Special Collections Digital Projects: The Special Collections Research Center's digital collections program makes available online digital versions of unique photographic and manuscript materials from the University Archives and Manuscript Collections. The program emphasizes areas of strength in the overall NCSU Libraries' collections such as architecture, forestry and plant ecology, and university history.

NC Architects

A biographical dictionary of architects and builders who practiced in North Carolina is currently under development at the North Carolina State University Libraries.

The project was initially intended to be published in books form, as a complement to "Architects and Builders in North Carolina: A History of the Practice of Building" (University of North Carolina Press, 1990), by Catherine W. Bishir, Charlotte V. Brown, Carl R. Lounsbury, and Ernest H. Wood. Substantial research was completed on some 400 biographical entries as part of that project.

Recently, the NCSU Libraries and Catherine W. Bishir, architectural historian, initiated plans to develop the biographical dictionary as an online resource. It is anticipated that some 500-600 biographical entries will be included within two to four years. The initial launch is planned in 2008 to comprise about 200 entries. The biographical dictionary will include a wide range of practitioners from the 17th century through the 20th century, and will feature both out-of-state architects who had projects in North Carolina and resident architects, as well as numerous craftsmen especially from the pre-industrial era. Entries will include brief biographical sketches, lists of buildings known by each practitioner, and bibliographical references.

The project dovetails with the NCSU Libraries' mission, especially with the Architectural Records Collection in the Special Collections Research Center, and with research interests associated with the Department of Architecture at the College of Design. The biographical dictionary also serves as an early project in the digital publishing initiative of the NCSU Libraries.

For more information contact: Markus Wust (markus_wust@ncsu.edu) or Catherine W. Bishir (catherine_bishir@ncsu.edu).

InsideWood

The InsideWood project integrates wood anatomical information from the literature and original observations into an internet-accessible database useful for research and teaching. The InsideWood database contains brief descriptions of woody dicots (hardwoods) from more than 200 plant families, and is searchable by an interactive, multiple-entry key.