Open Scholarship & Publishing and Arts & Humanities Department (OSPAH)
About
Open Scholarship & Publishing and Arts & Humanities (OSPAH) Department is one of eight departments situated within the Research & Learning Services portfolio. OSPAH is comprised of:
- Government Publications, Maps, Microforms & Newspapers
- Open & Interdisciplinary Research Support
- Arts & Humanities liaison team
Together, the department supports the entire research lifecycle from collecting and navigating primary source materials, supporting analysis and new knowledge creation, to publishing and sharing of research with broad audiences for the public good.
Where to Find Us
Our work spans a variety of Libraries spaces including:
Open Resources
Openly sharing the work of the University and the region is important to us. Explore our work:
Featured Events & Exhibits
As part of the Federal requirement to provide educational programming on the US Constitution, the UW Libraries holds an annual Constitution read aloud. We welcome students, faculty, staff and community members to join us in reading the Constitution and critically examining the historical and contemporary significance this document holds.
News
updated 1/2025 In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. day, UW Libraries encourages you to explore resources within our collections and across campus that reflect Dr. King’s work and collective efforts to combat racism, inequality, and injustice in our community and beyond. MLK visit to Seattle – Seattle Labor History Project At the invitation of his friend, Reverend Samuel B McKinney, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Seattle in November 1961. The visit proved to be much more controversial…
Happy New Year, Huskies! This month, take advantage of important new resources, and join us in person for …
Over 1 Million Files Preserved UW Libraries preservation repository, created in 2016, has just crossed the 100 TB mark, which represents the digital preservation of over one million files! Behind the numbers, however; this milestone reflects the prioritization and dedication to preserving UW Libraries materials for generations to come, including books, photographs, newspapers, government papers, audio recordings, films, and videos and more. What is a preservation repository? The preservation repository is the storage infrastructure in which digital content is preserved. …