About Digital UNC

Digital UNC is a service offered by the University Libraries to capture, store, organize, index, preserve, and provide access to examples of the University of Northern Colorado's information resources and intellectual output. It is intended to connect selected digital materials currently in existence throughout the campus in order to create a cohesive, useful, and sustainable repository of the educational, scholarly, research, and historical assets of the University.

Digital UNC is the University of Northern Colorado's implementation of the Alliance Digital Repository (ADR), a consortial digital repository service offered by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. The Alliance envisions the ADR as an infrastructure for supporting a diverse set of applications, services, and discovery tools that offer long-term management, secure storage, preservation solutions, and open access to digital assets to be determined by the individual Alliance member institutions. The ADR uses open-source software tools including Fedora and Fez.

Digital UNC has the potential to support the teaching and research missions and enhance the visibility and reputation of the University by encouraging intellectual curiosity, facilitating access to information, and showcasing the work of the University's schools, departments, and individuals. The repository can be used to provide open access to scholarly work, to publicly disseminate the results of agency-funded projects, to facilitate access to the University's resources by prospective students, and to provide long-term preservation of digital collections.