Digital Scholarship Resource Guide

Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything.

Google Sites is a free web building platform by Google.

A free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation.

Simple book production software that allows you to write your own book, or to import an existing manuscript. You can choose a book design theme, and export into all the file formats you need to publish your books.

A free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.

Create a website or blog. Choose a design, a custom domain, and a free or paid plan with the features you need, or install on your domain. An extensive library of plugins add functionality.

"a little engine for little games, worlds, and stories"

Clio is an educational website and mobile application that guides the public to thousands of historical and cultural sites throughout the United States along with nature trails, art walking tours, and virtual tours of museums and sites.

SceneVR is an engaging way to tell stories from an entirely new perspective. It turns your collection of panoramic and VR-ready photos into a slideshow of navigable scenes, allowing you to create unique 360° narratives.

StoryMapJS is a free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.

StoryMaps makes everyone a storyteller. Share your most important ideas and experiences as compelling interactive content featuring maps, media, and more.

TimelineJS is an open-source tool that enables anyone to build visually rich, interactive timelines.

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You don’t need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Cookbook containing documentation, tips, and examples for using the non-linear story creation tool Twine.

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation

Botsin.space is a website that offers a bot that can be used to perform repetitive tasks on a Mastodon.

Tracery is a super-simple tool and language to generate text, by GalaxyKate. It's been used by middle school students, humanities professors, indie game developers, and professional bot makers.

Unity is a software platform and game engine that allows users to create and run interactive 2D and 3D content for many different platforms

Unreal Engine is a 3D computer graphics game engine that allows developers to create interactive experiences, such as games, simulations, and visualizations

A community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here.

Use this site to find a summary of permissions that are normally given as part of different publishers' copyright transfer agreements.