Digital Collections and Publications
Digital Collections
Pepperdine Digital Collections facilitates the discovery of and access to a wide variety of digital materials related to Pepperdine University's history and unique archival holdings. The collections consist of digitized material from the Boone Special Collections and Archives and born-digital material. Collections are related to various topics, with many fitting into the major collecting areas described below.
Pepperdine Digital Collections is open to the public to encourage discovery and scholarship
at the widest possible breadth. The materials that compose our digital collections
are optimized for online information seeking and archived for long-term digital preservation.
You can review our collecting areas below, or visit our landing page on Quartex to view all collections.
Digital Publications
Pepperdine Libraries' Digital Publications is a repository for research and scholarly
output selected by individual university departments and centers on campus. Our publishing
platform, Digital Commons, provides instant access to full text works and preserves these materials in an open
access secure digital environment
Collecting Areas
University Archives
The University Archives digital collections offer a selection of digitized and born-digital
archival content that show the development of the University, major events, and student
life. These materials include photographs, student publications, student newspapers,
yearbooks, and more.
Malibu Historical Collection
The goals of this digital collection are to tell the story of Malibu – its history,
heritage, and people; to create a digital repository for papers, videos, oral histories,
photos, and newspapers; and exhibit materials related to the history of the region,
thus making them accessible to a global audience.
Churches of Christ Heritage Collection
The Churches of Christ Heritage Collection offer a selection of digitized items from
the history of the Churches of Christ, Pepperdine Bible Lectures, missionary work,
and other materials of note to this religious movement.
Film and Television Archives
A number of digital collections related to the history of film and television including
scripts, photographs, films, and documents that cover a broad range of film and television
history.
Preserving the History of South Los Angeles
This initiative, made possible in part with support from California Humanities, is
designed to collect, preserve, and make available oral histories drawn from members
of the South Los Angeles community.