UVic Libraries
Digital Scholarship Commons
The Digital Scholarship Commons is for all University of Victoria students, faculty, and staff. If you are interested in learning more about emerging technology and love to tinker, create and collaborate, come to the DSC and check out what we have to offer!
Register For a Workshop
We schedule open workshops all year and are currently presenting them online and in person. Click here to see our schedule.
Schedule a Consultation
Have questions or need one-on-one help with some software or a digital tool? Fill out our form and we can answer questions over email, book time to meet up in person, or via video chat.
Book a Class Workshop
If you are a UVic instructor wanting to book us to lead a workshop for your class, click here to read more about what we offer.
Our Blog
DSC 2022 Year in Review
Telling Stories with Data: Digital Skills & Knowledge Mobilization We had a busy 2022 in the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) as we continued to help students, faculty and staff learn to tell stories about their research in ways beyond text to further their...
Sketchnoting: An Effective & Fun End-of-Semester Review Activity?
The last class of the semester for my undergraduate EdTech class was looming. While I wanted to make the class review of what we’ve learned over the semester more engaging than me droning on with my well-worn slide deck, did I want to put in the time and effort to...
DSC Intern Reflections – Victoria Hartman
My internship at the Digital Scholarship Commons (DSC) has been a wonderful experience. Over 8 months, I helped to develop a new workshop for Design for Laser cutting and improve existing workshops. This included adding Indigenous centered activities like writing...
What We Do
We assist faculty, students, and staff in learning digital tools and methodologies to help them pursue their passions and tell their research stories in engaging ways, in a welcoming, equitable, and diverse environment. We encourage interdisciplinary work across campus in order to spark cross-disciplinary conversations. We offer services to help our UVic community become well-versed in digital information fluency through one-on-one training, workshops, digital curriculum development advice, tools, software, and more.
