Digital Collections
WyoDigital is the University of Wyoming Libraries’ repository for digitized materials. Our collections include digitized materials from Emmitt D. Chisum Special Collections, libraries’ general collections, and collections from other collaborating partners. Examples include historic maps, books, photographs, UWyo yearbooks, manuscripts, ephemera, and more.
The Wyoming Data Repository (WDR) is a research data management system for the University of Wyoming and all Wyoming Community Colleges. WDR is a completely open access research data repository offered by the UW Libraries in collaboration with the Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC).
A searchable index of research outputs by UW authors, designed for ease of discoverability, statewide collaboration, and exploration of institutional publishing trends. WRDI is a open index of research outputs from UW-affiliated authors and is offered by UW Libraries in collaboration with Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center (WyGISC).
WyoScholar is an open-access repository of student publications, open educational resources, open-access faculty publications, and other forms of gray literature.
Historic Wyoming Newspapers from every county in Wyoming from 1849 to the present. This is a growing collection currently comprising approximately 5 million pages. Access is partially restricted to UW-affiliated users.
Chronicling America Historic American Newspapers, provided by the US Library of Congress, comprises historical newspapers from 1736 to 1963 from every state in the Union. Through an NEH grant, the UW Libraries has contributed roughly 250 thousand pages of Wyoming newspaper content. All content is entirely open-access.
Archive-IT captures UW web pages at regular intervals, maintaining a historic record of web-based content. Archive-It is currently run in collaboration with the American Heritage Center.
UW Open Journals is a service provided by the University of Wyoming Libraries at no cost to our faculty, students, and staff. Based on Open Journal Systems version 3, we offer open journal and peer-reviewed series hosting for the University of Wyoming. UW Open Journals is part of the larger Open Access movement and as such, all content found within our journals is freely accessible without paywalls.
The UW Pressbooks Network is a user-friendly web-based publishing tool that allows authors to import content and export the resulting publication to various formats, including EPUB and PDF.
3D models created by the UW Libraries' Digital Collections Office in support of research, teaching, and scholarship. We are currently collaborating with the UW Geological Museum, the UW Vertebrate Museum, & the UW Archaeological Repository.
Instructions + Policies
To deposit in WyoScholar, the institutional repository, please read the instructions for uploading to WyoScholar.
For information regarding our repositories, please read the repository policies.
Statement on Potentially Harmful Language and Content Found in Collections
UW Libraries collect a wide range of materials representing many current and historical perspectives to support the university’s teaching and research mission. Because of this, users may encounter language or images that they consider offensive or harmful. For more information, view The Controversial Materials Policy portion of the Collection Guidelines for UW Libraries (PDF).
