Campus Resources – Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research

Beyond LEADR, MSU has a number of digital resources for students, faculty, and staff:

MATRIX: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences. They produce collaborative and sustainable digital humanities projects. They build software and services that enable new and innovative research.

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online is dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet. H-Net creates and coordinates networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

DH@MSU is a campus-wide digital humanities initiatives. The website points to funding and resources. It also has information about the graduate certificate and undergraduate minor in digital studies.

MSU Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab staff offers consultations and can give an overview of what’s available and who has expertise in related areas.

MakeCentral is part of the DSL in the library and has equipment that anyone can check out (including faculty or multi-department projects). Knowledge Commons: an open-source, open-access network that serves researchers and practitioners around the world. KC cultivates open spaces for diverse communities to foster a digital presence. MSU Commons: this campus initiative is part of Humanities Commons (which anyone can join). Users can create a scholarly online profile and WordPress websites for free. They can also use the Core Repository and form Groups for communication and resource sharing.