About Digital Projects

The SCC promotes the communication of scholarly material by developing digital projects across a broad range of academic topics, in collaboration with librarians, teaching and research faculty, and the State of New Jersey. Projects range from online indexes and databases to electronic journals, digital libraries, and image archives. Much of our current work is focused on developing a generic framework for all types of digital projects. This framework is known as RUcore - Rutgers University Community Repository. RUcore provides a robust data model, a friendly information architecture, and a digital library platform build on Fedora. Questions may be directed to Ron Jantz, Head, Scholarly Communication Center.

Current Digital Projects

Alcohol History Database is an assortment of over 500 monographs, pamphlets and journals on the Temperance and Prohibition movements. It also includes images in the form of drawings, engravings, photographs, and portraits, in addition to samples of temperance regalia and banners.

Alcohol Studies Database contains citations of over 55,000 documents indexed by the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies since 1987. The primary focus of the database is on research and professional materials dealing with beverage alcohol, its use and related consequences.

Common Knowledge Database was designed primarily for the use of RUL faculty and staff in locating hard-to-find library resources as well as resources outside the Rutgers University Libraries.

Eagleton Public Opinion Polls provides access to the Center for Public Interest Polling/Eagleton Poll (CPIP) public opinion polls dating back to 1971.

Electronic New Jersey is designed for the in-depth study of New Jersey history. The six topical modules currently available were chosen after careful review of a range of sources available in the Special Collections and University Archives of the Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

Griffis Collection Prototype is intended to demonstrate the feasibility of a new kind of networked electronic access tool for collections of rare documents, using The William Elliot Griffis Collection. The Griffis Collection, housed in Rutgers University Special Collections and University Archives, is a major collection of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century print, manuscript, photographic and ephemeral materials relating largely to the early history of Japan-U.S. relations in the modern period.

Italy's Peoples is a comprehensive research database of links related to Italy's Peoples. It has been developed through the Rutgers University Department of History and Professor Rudolph M. Bell with the assistance of Patrick Harrington and Igor V. Soukhanov.

Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank is a project established at Rutgers University and originally cosponsored by the Research Libraries Group (RLG), Inc. Its aim is to provide scholars with an expanding library of information in electronic format on the medieval and early modern periods of European history, circa 800-1815 C.E.

NJ Digital Highway is in development. When launched, it will feature a large collection of materials, all accessible from one common search interface. The materials committed by our partners will cover a broad range of New Jersey history, from audio and video, to photographs, diaries, and more.

NJ Environmental Digital Library is an online repository of environmental literature and multimedia related to New Jersey. The digital collection includes documents and reports, scientific studies, photographs, videos and maps.

NJ Women's History is a resource for students, teachers, and all interested people who want to know more about the history of New Jersey women.

Plagiarism and Academic Integrity is an interactive story and learning module designed for undergraduates. The lesson focuses on ethical decisions students must make during the process of preparing a research paper.

Rutgers EAD Prototype Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is a standard maintained by the Library of Congress and the Society of American Archivists for the encoding of archival finding aids.

Serbian Digest (VREME) An archive comprising all issues VREME NDA, a weekly newsletter covering events in Yugoslavia during the 1990s.

WILD (Women In Leadership Database) a portal to unique scholarly resources about women's leadership found in selective archival and manuscript collections at Rutgers University.