UltraViolet

UltraViolet is a service of the New York University Libraries and New York University IT. UltraViolet provides long-term open access to a broad range of digital materials, including data, software, lesson plans, journal articles, book chapters, and the many more types of output the NYU community creates and/or uses in the course of their work at the University.

UltraViolet is also intended to evolve to reflect changing publishing needs and norms as identified by NYU faculty, staff, and students; we welcome your input and engagement. NYU Libraries and NYU IT provide curation, storage, and discovery services free to you as a member of the NYU scholarly community.

As part of its social commitment as a research university, NYU Libraries strives to ensure that scholarship done at the University are as widely available as possible, and in particular that its holdings meet the standards of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). UltraViolet provides open access to the work that makes NYU a leader in research, teaching, and creativity. UltraViolet is where the Library preserves the scholarship and research produced by our community.

The UltraViolet team is dedicated to the self-determination and empowerment of vulnerable communities and peoples historically subject to forces of injustice and oppression, a stance that shapes the repository’s decisions in cataloging, acquisition, and assessing context for collection of materials submitted for deposit. The team supports the application of CARE (Collective benefit, Authority to control, Responsibility, Ethics) principles to governance of repositories, arising from Indigenous contexts and other initiatives designed to mitigate the harm to minoritized groups.

UltraViolet repository has been developed as a partnership of Data Services, Digital Library Technology Services, and Digital Scholarship Services (NYU Libraries) and Research Technology (NYU IT). UltraViolet is powered by InvenioRDM, an open source platform with a large collaborative community in which we are proud to participate. Additionally, deposits may be curated by our colleagues in the Data Curation Network, of which NYU is also a proud member institution.