New UM publishing platform makes sharing research online easy
Share multimedia projects and research through UM Libraries eScholarship open digital publishing platform
The University of Manitoba Libraries is now accepting proposals for publishing on its new open digital publishing platform, eScholarship.
About the eScholarship platform
eScholarship is a new site that aims to provide faculty and students with tools for creating and sharing research digitally. eScholarship is powered by the open-source Manifold publishing platform.
Hosted by University of Manitoba Libraries, the eScholarship site provides readers access to a variety of different open publications, open educational resources and more.
The platform makes it easy to incorporate multimedia elements into text-based publications, and provides secure, long-term storage for publications.
What you can publish
When UM history professor Adele Perry came across a blog post from two Canadian historians about their textbooks going out of print, she thought they would be a good fit for the eScholarship platform.
UM Libraries was able to give the textbooks a new life by helping publish them on the eScholarship platform. Origins and Destinies by Canadian historians Robert Wardhaugh [PhD/95] and Alan MacEachern are now available for free online.
Many different kinds of multimedia projects can be published with the eScholarship platform. Some of the projects published or in the process of being published on eScholarship include:
- Texts with embedded audio files
- Research with interactive GIS maps from UM’s GIS hub
Submit an open publishing project proposal
Publish your work and research now on eScholarship.
Submit a publishing project proposal now
More support
Contact OER Specialist, Glenn Bergen with questions.
Other open publishing platforms the Libraries provides include Open Journal Systems (OJS), a scholarly journal platform, and MSpace, UM’s institutional repository.
Learn more about the Libraries open publishing platforms and services.