Wikipedia:Visiting Scholars/Participating institutions/University of Windsor
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About the University of Windsor[edit]
The University of Windsor is a public research university in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomie. Founded in 1857 as Assumption College, a small liberal arts college, it is today a large non-denominational institution counting more than 15,000 students in 255 undergraduate and graduate programs.
About the Centre for Digital Scholarship[edit]
The Centre for Digital Scholarship (CDIGS) brings together the digital services offered by the Leddy Library to support University of Windsor students, faculty, and staff. It develops and curates research and archival tools and provides research and collaboration opportunities for university students, faculty, and staff interested in digital scholarship and technological learning. It is also an active publisher of academic journals, monographs, and conference proceedings.
Overview of library resources[edit]
The Leddy Library is the University of Windsor's main campus library. Visiting Scholars will have access to thousands of journals and hundreds of thousands of ebooks, as well as databases and publishers like the Gale Virtual Reference Library, JSTOR, Springer Books, EBSCOHost eBook collection, Academic Search Complete, Academic OneFile, Project MUSE, etc. (see a full list here). The library has extensive holdings on Canadian history and regional history, including the South Western Ontario Digital Archive and Our Digital World, which provides access to 200 years of regional newspapers, including newspapers in French and abolitionist newspapers. In an ongoing project, staff are also digitizing other sources related to early Detroit River history.
Current Visiting Scholars[edit]
Textaural[edit]
Textaural (talk · contribs) is the Visiting Scholar at the University of Windsor. Using the University of Windsor’s collections, his research will include cross-border culture, First Nations history in the Essex county/Detroit River area, early French History of the Detroit River area, Windsor/Sandwich’s Underground Railroad, and First Nations sports history.
- Media
- Steve Jankowski is the University of Windsor’s Wikipedia Visiting Scholar - Wiki Education blog (22 March 2018)