Library Digitization Grant
Support for academic libraries to digitise theses, dissertations, institutional publications and scholarly archives, and to make them preserved, searchable and accessible.
About this call
Many institutions hold decades of theses, dissertations, institutional publications and archives only in print — vulnerable to loss and invisible to researchers outside the building. This grant concept supports the digitisation of priority collections together with the metadata, rights review and repository publication needed to make them genuinely useful.
What this call aims to achieve
Expected outcomes
- Priority print collections digitised to agreed standards
- Digitised items published in an institutional repository
- Library staff able to continue digitisation independently
Impact framework
- Inputs
- Funding and/or in-kind digitisation capacity; technical support on scanning standards, metadata and repository publication.
- Activities
- Collection assessment and prioritisation; rights and permissions review; scanning and quality control; metadata creation; publication to an institutional repository.
- Outputs
- Number of documents digitised; number of records with complete metadata; collections published online.
- Outcomes
- Improved access to institutional research for students, staff and external researchers.
- Long-term impact
- Institutional knowledge preserved for the long term, and greater visibility of the institution’s research.
How we will measure it
- Documents digitised
- Records published with complete metadata
- Repository downloads/views of digitised items
- Library staff trained in digitisation workflows
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