Digital Scholarship at USFSP: Results from the NPML Goal 1 Committee Report

This report presents the results from the NPML’s Strategic Goal 1 Committee’s environmental scan of faculty-led digital scholarship activities at USFSP. Initial exploration of this topic began late in the 2017/18 year, while a more systematic environmental scan with semi-structured interviews of USFSP faculty occurred in the Fall 2018 semester. The following themes emerged: ● Faculty continue to collaborate with their previous R1 university ● Their purposes for conducting DS projects are both immediate and practical as well as long term and ideological ● Research and instruction are intimately linked ● DS is used for Instruction ● Students play a role ● Faculty experience multiple challenges: Internal and End User ● Faculty need for additional support in some areas ● Faculty need support/knowledge regarding project maintenance and sustainability Using these results, the NPML Goal 1 committee developed a series of recommendations pertaining to: 1) Marketing, 2) Software 3) Supporting Research, 4) Instruction, and 5) Digital USFS