The purpose of UCD Digital Library is to curate and present the digital cultural heritage collections of the University to the world, protecting and preserving the data while keeping it as open as possible.
UCD Digital Library is an access platform for digitised and born-digital material from UCD Library’s Cultural Heritage collections. We have also collaborated with external organisations through partnership agreements, which included services to digitise and host their cultural heritage collections. The collections include historical materials, such as maps, photographs, letters, pamphlets, telegrams, printed documents, registers of names, as well as more modern material, such as video, audio recordings and pointcloud data.
Please note that the UCD Digital Library does not include access to e-resources (such as books and journals) that UCD Library provides for faculty, staff and students. These be accessed as usual from the UCD Library website.
UCD Digital Library is based in University College Dublin, and is part of UCD Library. It has a dedicated team under the directorate for Collections & Digital Services. Members of the team also support other services in the Directorate through technical and project management roles, and are involved with the Irish Social Sciences Data Archive (ISSDA) and Research Repository, UCD (RRU).
The UCD Digital Library team also offer expertise in digital content management and preservation as well as related policy matters, such as Open Access.
Policies and procedures relating to preservation, digital object curation (including acquisition and digitisation), cataloguing, copyright, and the technical infrastructure, will be available in the Publications area.
Information about the UCD Digital Library, its services, and general guidelines about digitisation projects and other related disciplines, can be found in a growing number of online guides and publicity material.
