The UC Irvine Libraries Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) department has a new name: Data, Publishing, and Digital Scholarship (DPDS).

The department was created approximately 10 years ago to enhance support for a range of emerging services, including open access publishing, research data management, and digital preservation. Over this period, services within the purview of “digital scholarship” at UC Irvine Libraries have evolved to encompass digital humanities, robust computational research support across disciplines, and now a growing digitization and digital initiatives program.

The name change to DPDS more accurately communicates the breadth of services we offer while maintaining continuity with our previous name and aligning to commonly used professional terms. 

What DPDS Does

DPDS fosters the use of transformative technology to manage, preserve, and share digital scholarship in an increasingly dynamic and computationally rich research ecosystem. The Libraries' department provides infrastructure, education, and consultation services that support research data management and curation, open access publishing, digital collection-building, and critical literacies for digital research across disciplines.

What Isn’t Changing

Nothing is changing as far as what services DPDS provides. We continue to offer consultation appointment services and a range of workshops and customized instruction, including a robust online Carpentries-based programming curriculum. DPDS librarians and technologists serve as liaisons to critical data and publishing infrastructure such as the eScholarship institutional repository, Dryad data repository, and the DMPTool.

To learn more, visit the DPDS website, join us for an upcoming workshop, or reach out to schedule a consultation appointment.