Digital Scholarship
Consultants
Our team includes experts in copyright, digitization, digital humanities, and research data curation.
Research
From creation to preservation, we connect researchers with digital tools and strategies at every step along the research pathway.
Digital Scholarship in Action
The Open Access Publishing Fund Is Back for FY27
Good news for Wake Forest researchers: the WFU Open Access Publishing Fund is open again for FY27! After closing early in 2026 due to high demand, ZSR Library and the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs (ORSP) have refreshed the fund and are ready to support Reynolda campus faculty publishing open access articles, books, and […]
A Look Back, A Step Forward: DISC Joins RIO
ZSR’s Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications (DISC) team is joining the Research, Instruction, and Outreach (RIO) team. This marks both an ending and a beginning, a chance to reflect on what DISC accomplished as a standalone unit and to chart a path forward for how ZSR supports digital scholarship and digital pedagogy. What We’ve Built […]
Wake Forest’s Historical Costumes Take the Stage in the Digital Age
“It smells kind of like feet down here,” I say. In truth, it smells very much like feet. “Well, yes, that’d be the shoe room,” Mary replies, pointing to an open door, through which I can see rows upon rows of shelves, overflowing with shoes of all types. It’s the smell of generations of feet, […]
DH@Wake Summer Institute Applications are Open
Wake Forest faculty are invited to apply for the 2023 DH@Wake Summer Institute: Digital Projects in the Open. Our 3-day workshop will explore opportunities and resources for publishing digital projects in teaching and research activities. Hosted by ZSR Library’s Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication team, the Summer Institute will be held in-person at ZSR Library […]
For news, projects, and more, visit the Digital Scholarship blog.
Our Areas of Expertise
We provide consulting and instruction for the following:
- Tool Assessment & Training
- Metadata
- Digital Publishing
- Researcher Profiles
- Database Design
- Archiving Scholarship
- Data Management
- Copyright & Fair Use
- Authors' Rights
- Open Access
Meet the Team
- Digital Publishing
- Open Education & OER
- Research Infrastructure
- Data Analysis
- Data Literacy
- Research Data Management
- Digital Repositories
- Open Access Publishing
- Copyright & Authors' Rights
Research Pathway
To best support faculty research, we think of each project as a series of manageable steps in a long-term process. We’ve created an interactive Research Pathway graphic to illustrate this process. Please explore the research pathway and contact the team to schedule a consultation to talk more about ways we can assist in your research process.
Project Showcase
Wake Forest’s Historical Costumes Take the Stage in the Digital Age
“It smells kind of like feet down here,” I say. In truth, it smells very much like feet. “Well, yes, that’d be the shoe room,” Mary replies, pointing to an open door, through which I can see rows upon rows of shelves, overflowing with shoes of all types. It’s the smell of generations of feet, […]