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New Digital Collections Platform for Archives and Special Collections

UNO Libraries’ Digital Collections shares photographs and documents with users via JSTOR.

  • published: 2024/03/21
  • contact: Amy C. Schindler - Archives and Special Collections
  • email: acschindler@unomaha.edu

After a period of evaluating and testing potential platforms, the UNO Libraries Digital Collections platform for Archives and Special Collections material has migrated to JSTOR effective March 2024. The digitized and born-digital material is arranged by its archival or manuscript collection such as the UNO Photograph Collection, UNO Newsletter Collection, U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel Archives, Sam Fried Papers, and YMCA of Greater Omaha Records. These materials are part of the 35 collections documenting UNO and Omaha history.

UNO Libraries Digital Collections present a rich variety of the diverse unique and specialized collections available from UNO Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections, including photographs, maps, publications, ephemera, and a variety of document types. Visitors to the website may browse or search across the collections’ Dublin Core metadata and OCR’d documents. Archivists anticipate broadening the reach and engagement of newly published digital content with students, alumni, Omaha community members, and beyond.

Through UNO Libraries’ website, the nearly 7,000 digital objects are freely available online while being prepared for preservation for future generations. A JSTOR account is not required to access the digital resources shared from UNO’s collection. UNO Libraries joins more than 180 institutions using JSTOR to catalog, publish, and provide access to unique and specialized digital collections.

Community digitization partnerships previously undertaken by Archives and Special Collections also continue to be available online. The former UNO Libraries Digital Collections repository using Islandora will be shut down and inaccessible as of April 1, 2024.

Nebraska Archives Online continues as the home of finding aids for archival and manuscript collections held by Archives and Special Collections. Finding aids and guides are available to learn more about archival records, manuscripts, ephemera, and other unique materials. The UNO finding aids that include digital collections available to the public online include links to photographs, documents, films, oral histories, and other primary sources. Nebraska Archives Online is the integrated portal providing access to the unique resources of the University of Nebraska archival repositories on each of the four university campuses, University of Nebraska Kearney, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Learn more about other digital collections available from Archives and Special Collections here. Contact Archives and Special Collections for assistance with your research, instruction, questions, and other administrative needs.

The project to migrate digital collections and launch the new website is part of UNO Libraries' strategy to expand our digital resources and unique collections, while growing collections reflective of the Omaha and campus communities.

About JSTOR

JSTOR is a part of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.

About the University of Nebraska at Omaha Libraries

UNO Libraries fulfill the UNO mission through dynamic services, highly qualified and adaptive personnel, unique and extensive collections, and accessible learning spaces and environments. The Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Library on UNO’s Dodge Campus provides UNO students, faculty and staff, and the Omaha community with the resources and materials needed to excel academically and professionally.