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Computing and e-services

e-Services Office - LA&PS (eSO)

The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies is dedicated to faculty research and in keeping with its mandate, offers computing assistance for research website development and online research projects.

Researchers requiring computing support or direction can submit a request via: esohelp@yorku.ca.

Contact:

eServices Office (eSO)
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies
Suite 2120, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Building
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 1P3
Phone: 416-736-5622

To find out more about eSO please go to: www.yorku.ca/laps/eso/


Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL)

The Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) unit strives to improve results through its virtual community and professional learning program. The unit integrates new and existing information communication technologies (ICTs) into a variety of teaching and learning initiatives.

ABEL Services include:

  • Professional Learning Program: a wide variety of learning opportunities both online and face-to-face, including training sessions, conferences and annual summer institutes

  • Curriculum Development: ABEL provides mentoring and tools for integrating learning technologies in all areas of the curriculum. This is achieved through building and supporting collaborative learning communities and implementing blended learning environments for learning, teaching and training.

  • Research & Teaching: ABEL research supports :
    • Ongoing innovation in learning
    • Teacher/faculty professional learning
    • Personalized lifelong learning environments
    • Instructional designs that make best use of technologies
    • Local, national or international interdisciplinary and collaborative projects
  • Tools and Services: ABEL leverages collaborative technologies including:
    • videoconferencing services
    • web based services (podcasting, blogs, streamed media, wikis, moodle)
    • online forums and webstreaming
    • webcasts and webinars
    • video libraries
  • Researcher-Community Knowledge Sharing: ABEL provides technology and communication infrastructure to support the dissemination of knowledge between researchers and community partners including private and public sector organizations

For more information
Website: http://abelearn.ca/
York Research Tower, 3rd Floor
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON
M3J 1P3

Tel: (416) 736-2100 ext. 20020
E-mail: abelinfo@yorku.ca

University Information Technology

UIT, York University's central information technology organization, offers a number of services to help researchers with the setup and maintenance of computer hardware in a secure environment. UITis available for both pre- or post-award consultation. If UIT services are required to support your hardware, please contact us as early as possible after your grant has been awarded.

They can assist with the following.

  • Facilities management
    Housing computer hardware in a secure, environmentally controlled machine room with redundant power and network connectivity.
  • Data protection
    Backup and restore of system and application data.
  • Server management
    Setup, installation and maintenance of operating system and applications on Unix/Linux, Windows, Novell, and Mac OS.
  • Collaborative technologies expertise and service
    Videoconferencing, Access Grid.
  • Computer design consultation
    Consulting on desktop and server hardware specifications
  • Web page Design:

Contact

Email: rescomp@yorku.ca
Website: http://computing.yorku.ca/faculty-staff/teaching-research-computing/research-computing/


York Library Services

Using Open Journal Systems (OJS) to create/publish a journal online

York University Libraries is working with York faculty to publish journals using OJS, a specialized software program for online journal publishing. Benefits of using OJS include fast setup, permanent archiving and increased exposure through the Libraries' affiliation with the Synergies project.

Synergies is a consortium of 21 Canadian universities, including York, working to bring Canadian social sciences and humanities research and journals to the Internet through one portal. It is currently in phase one of development - gathering data - and the portal is expected to be implemented by 2011.

For more information about the project: www.fsc.yorku.ca/yul/drupal/

To view the journals: www.library.yorku.ca/ojs

YorkSpace, York's online portal for research

Currently in the pilot stage, YorkSpace is York University's online portal for research. Items deposited in YorkSpace are preferentially ranked in Google searches, resulting in increased exposure and impact of York research. YorkSpace supports a variety of formats and is backed by the Library's commitment to the long term preservation of the deposited documents.

Contact:

Andrea Kosavic,
Digital Services Librarian:
E-mail: diginit@yorku.ca

To view the repository: www.library.yorku.ca/dspace


 

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