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Digital Approaches to Research

Resources for creating, managing, analyzing, and sharing scholarship.

Overview

A woman using a computer and notebook to study. This LibGuide offers an overview of Library support for digital approaches for research. "Digital scholarship” includes:  

  1. Creating, finding, and organizing digital materials for research purposes
  2. Transforming information into “data”
  3. Using computational methods to analyze digital content
  4. Presenting research results through digital forms of scholarly communication
  5. Preserving research outcomes

This guide is organized by the stages of research outlined above and their accompanying tasks. If you have questions about digital scholarship and/or the contents of this LibGuide, please contact Scholarly Communication and Publishing at scpub@library.illinois.edu.

Contributors

This guide was created as part of a multi-unit effort to create an environmental scan of digital humanities and digital scholarship services, and was built by Cadence Cordell and Mary Ton in Spring 2025. It will be reviewed and updated on a semesterly basis by Scholarly Communication and Publishing. If you notice any gaps in the content or would like new services to be added to the guide, please contact us at scpub@library.illinois.edu.