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'''National Science Digital Library''' ('''NSDL''') of the United States is an [[open-access]] online [[digital library]] and [[collaborative network]] of disciplinary and grade-level focused education providers operated by the [[Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education]]. NSDL's mission is to provide quality digital learning collections to the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education community, both formal and informal, institutional and individual. NSDL's collections are refined by a network of STEM educational and disciplinary professionals. Their work is based on user data, disciplinary knowledge, and participation in the evolution of digital resources as major elements of effective STEM learning.

Resource types available via NSDL include instructional materials, activities, lesson plans, audio/video materials, images, web sites, simulations, visualizations, tools, and services. NSDL also provides annotation collection and [[Paradata (Learning Resource Analytics)|paradata]] (usage data) collections: comments, ratings, or usage information attached to existing resources in the NSDL.

== Activities ==
* [http://www.learningregistry.org/ Learning Registry]: The NSDL is a partner in the national Learning Registry project to facilitate the exchange of resources, metadata about resources, and [[Paradata (Learning Resource Analytics)|paradata]] about their use in learning environments. NSDL is contributing to this multi-agency federal project designed to make learning resources produced by federal funding more accessible.<ref>Van Gundy, S. (2011). [http://connectededucators.org/blog/why-connected-online-communities-will-drive-the-future-of-digital-content-an-introduction-to-learning-resource-paradata/ Why Connected Online Communities Will Drive the Future of Digital Content: An Introduction to Learning Resource Paradata. Connected Online Communities of Practice (COCP)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111119191914/http://connectededucators.org/blog/why-connected-online-communities-will-drive-the-future-of-digital-content-an-introduction-to-learning-resource-paradata/ |date=2011-11-19 }}.</ref>
* [https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/STEM+Exchange+and+paradata+concepts NSDL STEM Exchange]: concept for a web service to capture and share social media-generated information and other networked associations about educational resources (tagged, recommended, commented, discussed, clicked, viewed, downloaded, favorited, shared, etc.)<ref>Van Gundy, S. (2010). [https://wiki.ucar.edu/pages/worddav/preview.action?fileName=STEM+Exchange_NSDL+Exec+Summary_0.pdf&pageId=236520324 The STEM Exchange: Enabling next generation approaches for community access to federally funded online materials.] Concept Paper. Boulder, Colorado: National STEM Education Digital Library. 4.</ref>
* [https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/LAR+Concepts Learning Application Readiness] - an NSDL initiative that refers to how closely educational resources, collections, and their related metadata are aligned to educational goals, curriculum, or professional development needs of users, and how readily those can be embedded in tools and services that teachers and students use.<ref>Ginger, K., & L. Goger (2011). Evaluating the National Science Digital Library for Learning Application Readiness. Paper presented at the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Bridging the Gulf: Communication and Information in Society, Technology, and Work.</ref>
* [https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1144560&HistoricalAwards=false ''Repositioning NSDL for the Next Generation of Digital Learning''] - An NSDL NSF-funded project building on and leveraging the lessons of prior work (NSDL [http://nsdl.org/partners network partners collaborations];[https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/STEM+Exchange+and+paradata+concepts]; [https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/Learning+Registry Learning Registry] collaboration; [https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/LAR+Concepts]; [http://nsdl.org/commcore/math/ Common Core Mathematics collection]) to bring pilot level projects to scale and to integrate new STEM education services into NSDL. These efforts contribute to NSDL's sustainability through diffusion and adoption of resources into a wider range of instructional settings and teacher peer-to-peer networks.

== History ==

The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was established in 2000 by the [http://nsf.gov National Science Foundation] (NSF) to provide an organized point of access to STEM content aggregated from a variety of other digital libraries, NSF-funded projects, and other national STEM stakeholder providers. Key collaborations with [http://nsdl.org/partners disciplinary communities and audience-focused providers] grew out of the NSDL, providing a social and technical infrastructure for collaboration in the delivery and use of digital resources in STEM education <ref>Zia, L. L. (2001). [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march01/zia/03zia.html Growing a national learning environments and resources network for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology education.] D-Lib Magazine, 7(3).</ref>
.<ref>Zia, L. L. (2001). [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november01/zia/11zia.html The NSF National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library (NSDL) program:  New projects and a progress report]. D-Lib Magazine, 7(11).</ref> NSDL also provides access to services and tools that enhance the use of this content in a variety of contexts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/Home|title = Home - NSDL Documentation Wiki - wiki.ucar.edu}}</ref> NSDL is designed primarily for K-16 educators, but anyone can access NSDL.org and search the library at no cost, and without creating a user account, although some content providers require a nominal fee or subscription to retrieve their specific resources.

From 2000 – 2011, the National Science Foundation sponsored an NSDL grant-making program in the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) of the Education and Human Resources Directorate. The [http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5487&org=DUE&from=home National STEM Distributed Learning (NSDL) program] offered grants to support major collection-building efforts, services development, and targeted research that built and extended library services. In February 2011, the NSF ended the NSDL grant-making program in DUE, and did not issue an NSDL program solicitation for FY2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5487&org=DUE&from=home|title = National STEM Education Distributed Learning (NSDL)}}</ref>

Originally a collaboration between [http://www.cornell.edu/ Cornell University], [http://www.columbia.edu/ Columbia University], and the [http://www2.ucar.edu/ University Corporation for Atmospheric Research] (UCAR), the NSDL became entirely hosted at UCAR, in Boulder, Colorado. In 2014, the NSDL was transferred to the [[Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.ucar.edu/13512/iskme-manage-national-science-digital-library | title=ISKME to manage National Science Digital Library &#124; NCAR & UCAR News }}</ref> and incorporated into the [[OER Commons]] as a Hub in 2024.

==See also==
*[[Analytical Sciences Digital Library]]

==Notes==
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== References ==
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*Lagoze, C., D. B. Krafft, S. Payette, & S. Jesuroga (2005). [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/lagoze/11lagoze.html What is a digital library anymore, anyway?] D-Lib Magazine, 11(11).
*Mardis, M., & K. Howe (2010). [http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/docs/KQ_NovDec10_WEB.pdf STEM for Our Students: Content to Co-conspiracy?] [Co-editor's column]. Knowledge Quest, Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, 39(2), 82.
*Mervis, Jeffrey. NSF Rethinks Its Digital Library. Science 2 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5910, pp.&nbsp;54&ndash;58. {{doi|10.1126/science.323.5910.54}}
*Multiple authors (2010). [http://www.ala.org/aasl/sites/ala.org.aasl/files/content/aaslpubsandjournals/knowledgequest/docs/KQ_NovDec10_WEB.pdf STEM for our Students. Knowledge Quest], Journal of the American Association of School Librarians, 39(2), 82.
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==External links==
*[https://oercommons.org/hubs/NSDL National Science Digital Library]
*[http://www.learningregistry.org/ Learning Registry]
*[https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/STEM+Exchange+and+paradata+concepts STEM Exchange]
*[https://wiki.ucar.edu/display/nsdldocs/LAR+Concepts Learning Application Readiness]
*[http://nsdl.org/commcore/math/ Common Core Mathematics collection]
*[http://nsdl.org/partners NSDL Network Partners]
*[http://nsf.gov National Science Foundation]
*[http://nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5487&org=DUE&from=home National STEM Distributed Learning (NSDL) program]
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