Last updated: 2003-09-18.
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This Directory is available in an html version on a web server at Rutgers University's Scholarly Communications Center at http://tabula.rutgers.edu/ceth/etext_directory/volume.html. If you know of any relevant links that are not included on this list, or if you want to update the information pertaining to your center, please write to: ceth@rci.rutgers.edu.
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NAME: Electronic Text Center
ADDRESS: Olin Library, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
AFFILIATION: Cornell University
CONTACT: Michael Engle
PHONE: 607-255-1884
EMAIL: moe1@cornell.edu
WWW: http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/cet/cet.html
RESOURCES: The Electronic Text Center supports the research and instructional use of electronic texts, mainly primary sources in the humanities and social sciences, from a dedicated facility in Olin Library. Texts available include the Patrologia Latina, Goethes Werke auf CD-ROM, CETEDOC, Bar-Ilan's Judaica Library, Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-1789), the Clarence Thomas Hearings, Civil War Newspapers, and ARTFL. The ETC has networked Macintosh and IBM workstations and scanning and OCR capabilities. The staff assists students, faculty, and staff in the use and creation of e-texts by providing consultation, point-of-use guides, class instruction, and a Web site. The ETC is open Monday through Friday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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NAME: Electronic Text Service (ETS)
ADDRESS: 504 Butler Library, Columbia University, NY NY 10027
AFFILIATION: Columbia University Libraries
CONTACT: Robert Scott, Director, ETS
PHONE: 212-854-7547
E-MAIL: scottr@columbia.edu
WWW: http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/ets/
RESOURCES: ETS is a research and instructional facility of the Columbia University Libraries designed to help Columbia faculty and students incorporate computer-based textual and bibliographic information into their research, study, and teaching. ETS has machine-readable primary source texts, software programs for textual analysis and critical editing, hypermedia and database research tools in the humanities, bibliographic database management programs, IBM and Macintosh microcomputers, X terminals, and optical scanning equipment for the creation of machine-readable text. The ETS staff will provide demonstrations, workshops, and classes for students and faculty.
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NAME: Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services
ADDRESS: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322-2870
AFFLIATION: Emory University General Libraries
CONTACT: Charles Spornick, Coordinator
PHONE: (404) 727-6954 FAX: (404) 727-0053
EMAIL: libcds@emory.edu
WWW: http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/
RESOURCES: The Beck Center collection is divided between stand alone and networked resources: The stand alone collection consists of more than 35 full-text and multimedia databases, most are on CD-ROM. The collection includes Access Russia, Admyte, Cetedoc Library of Christian Latin Texts, the Interactive Atlas of Georgia, the Judaic Classics Library, and Medieval Realms. These titles can be accessed on one of the center's eight workstations.
The networked collection consists of more than fifteen SGML databases. These databases are available through the World Wide Web, through Open Text's Webserver. These databases include the Database of African-American Poetry, the Patrologia Latina, the Oxford English Dictionary, and all of the texts available in Intellex's "Past Master" series. Commercial texts are restricted to use at Emory.
PROJECTS: The Beck Center, in conjunction with ITD's Faculty Information Technololgy Center (FITC) is engaged in three full-text digitization projects: 1) Medieval Chartularies; 2) Ordination Sermons; 3) Women Writers. Texts are being marked up into SGML, and are TEI conformant. These texts will also be loaded onto our server, and made available both on and off campus through Open Text's Webserver.
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NAME:Center for Text and Technology: Research, Curriculum, and Development Group Academic Computing Services
ADDRESS: 3520 Prospect Street, Room 314 Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057
AFFILIATION: Georgetown University
CONTACT: Michael Neuman, Director Research, Curriculum, and Development Group
PHONE: 202-687-6283 FAX: 202-687-8367
E-MAIL: neuman@guvax.georgetown.edu
WWW: http://www.georgetown.edu [University Home Page] WWW server
RESOURCES: The Group has produced -- under agreements with professional societies, publishers, and software developers -- two dozen electronic versions of standard critical editions in philosophy, including key works by Hegel and Feuerbach. These works, and many other licensed and public-domain texts in the humanities, are made available over the campus network to the computing labs and electronic classrooms, the library's Electronic Information Resource Center, and faculty offices. The electronic editions in philosophy are also available for purchase.
On the Internet, the Group's Deborah Everhart supports three Centers of Excellence on the University's Web home page: Labyrinth (Medieval Studies, developed by Deborah Everhart and Martin Irvine), Teaching the American Literatures (American Studies, developed by Randy Bass), and The Political Database of the Americas (Latin American Studies, developed by Peter Siavelis and Diana Bartholomew). On the Georgetown University gopher server (under #10 Computing) is the Catalogue of Projects in Electronic Text (listing primary texts in the humanities from commercial and academic developers). CPET is currently being renovated for delivery via the Web.
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NAME: Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS).
ADDRESS: Main Library E157, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405
AFFILIATION: Although the main public facility is located in a newly remodelled central location in the main library (next to Reference and Access Services), LETRS is, since July 1992, a true JOINT PROGRAM between the University Libraries and the University Computing Services.
CONTACT: PERRY WILLETT, Head of LETRS; JOHN WALSH, Manager of LETRS and Electronic Text Support Specialist; Ayman el-Haj, Senior Consultant and Graduate Assistant.
PHONE: 812-85LETRS (855-3877)
E-MAIL: LETRS@Indiana.edu
WWW: http://www.letrs.indiana.edu
RESOURCES: Access to various online etext sources such as the texts of the Victorian Women Writers Project (marked up in SGML and HTML) and LETRS's own Open Text system as well as detailed information about our history, services, and holdings (texts and tools).
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NAME: Information Arcade
ADDRESS: University of Iowa Libraries
University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242
AFFILIATION: University Libraries
CONTACT: Paul Soderdahl
PHONE: (319)335-6465
E-MAIL: paul-soderdahl@uiowa.edu
WWW: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/arcade/
RESOURCES: The purpose of the Information Arcade is to facilitate the integration of new information technologies into learning and research. In the Center, UI students, faculty, and staff can find a variety of resources for learning advanced information skills and for acquiring information in various formats. The Center provides access to a wide range of electronic source materials, with an emphasis on textual and multimedia databases; to OASIS and to other online catalogs and information sources on the Internet; and to equipment and software to support independent learning, classroom instruction, and research.
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NAME: Scholarly Digital Resource Center
ADDRESS: University of Iowa Libraries
University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242
AFFILIATION: University Libraries
CONTACT: Carol Ann Hughes
PHONE: (319) 335-5489
E-MAIL: carol-hughes@uiowa.edu
WWW: http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/
RESOURCES: The Scholarly Digital Resources Center at the University of Iowa Libraries was established to foster the creation and use of digitized collections and resources of interest to the University of Iowa community. The Center is a Libraries-wide initiative, managed by the SDRC Management Committee, and many of its projects are in partnership with faculty from a wide range of disciplines.
Activities of the Center include acquisition of digital collections, electronic publishing, digitizing of unique research materials, and providing access to digital collections located in other institutions. The SDRC is a resource for faculty and students interested in electronic publishing, or who wish to explore issues related to electronic scholarly communication. The creation of multimedia resources, building on the expertise and renown of the Information Arcade and the Information Commons, are a particular strength of the SDRC.
Current ongoing initiatives of the SDRC include the Arts & Humanities Digital Resources Center, the Center for Electronic Resources in African Studies, and Virtual Exhibits.
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NAME: Carrie: A Full-Text Electronic Library
CONTACT: Kendall Simmons, Manager
WWW:
http://www.ukans.edu/carrie RESOURCES: Online texts and projects with an emphasis on history and social sciences. ***** NAME: Electronic Information Access & Management Center ADDRESS: 2-1 William T. Young Library, 1000 University Drive, Lexington, KY 40506 AFFILIATION: University Libraries CONTACT: Eric Weig PHONE: (606) 257-0500x2106 E-MAIL: eweig@email.uky.edu WWW: http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/EIAMC/ RESOURCES: The University of Kentucky Libraries Electronic Information
Access & Management Center primarily identifies and implements digital
library standards and initiatives. As a part of its mission, the Center also
manages and serves as a production center for the Kentuckiana Digital
Library, part of the Kentucky Commonwealth Virtual Library's state-wide
initiative to digitize archival material in the state of Kentucky.
The Electronic Information Access and Management Center is located in
William T. Young Library at the University of Kentucky. The Center is currently equipped with
4 digital library production workstations with specialized hardware and
software for developing text encoding and imaging projects as well as
Internet audio/video content. A fifth workstation controls a PhaseOne
PowerPhase digital camera. The center emphasizes SGML/XML standards along
with archival imaging practice. Our software infrastructure includes the
DynaText/Web SGML/XML electronic publishing system and OCLC's SiteSearch
database software with Record Builder. ***** NAME: Digital Sources Center (DSC) ADDRESS: Main Library E308, Michigan State University Libraries, East Lansing, MI
48824-1048 AFFILIATION: The Digital Sources Center is a program of the MSU Libraries, which is a
division of Libraries, Computing, and Technologies. CONTACT: Michael Seadle, Digital Services and Copyright Librarian PHONE: 517-432-4796 (office) or 517-432-0807 (Seadle) E-MAIL: seadle@mail.lib.msu.edu WWW:http://www.lib.msu.edu/digital/ RESOURCES: The DSC provides assistance with SGML/XML markup languages,
digital sound, scanning, and numeric data sets. It is involved in a number
of grant-funded digital publishing projects, including the National Gallery
of the Spoken Word (part of the NSF-administered Digital Library
Initiative-phase 2), and works closely with the Vincent Voice Library at
MSU. The DSC also provides information about copyright. Appointments are
recommended.
***** NAME: Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) AFFILIATION: Part of the Digital Library Production Service (DLPS), HTI was conceived
in 1994 by the University of Michigan Press, the School of Information and Library
Studies, and the University Library, with important support from LS&A and the Office
of the Vice Provost for Research. CONTACT: Christina Powell, Coordinator of the Humanities Text Initiative E-MAIL: hti-info@umich.edu RESOURCES: The HTI delivers SGML-encoded text collections in the humanities via the
World Wide Web for the university library and for other universities participating in the
SGML Server Program. Text creation activities include the Corpus of Middle English Prose
and Verse and the American Verse Project. The HTI also collaborates with the UM Press in
the delivery of their online publications, including the Middle English Dictionary. ***** NAME: Electronic Text Center AFFILIATION: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries. CONTACT: Katherine L. Walter, Chair Digital Initiatives & Special Collections E-MAIL: kwalter1@unl.edu RESOURCES: The Electronic Text Center was established in 1999 to assist
faculty and students in developing digital text projects that support the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln's teaching, research, and service missions.
Of special interest are humanities texts accessible online. The E-Text
Center staff and faculty serve as consultants, providing information on
relevant issues such as copyright, access, organization, and preservation.
The Center sponsors workshops and roundtables, and provides a forum for
the exploration of ideas related to the creation of digital content.
***** NAME: The Studio, An Electronic Work Space ADDRESS: Humanities Reference, Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square S., NY NY
10012. CONTACT: Jennifer Vinopal,Assistant Curator, Western European Literatures &
Languages; Head, The Studio PHONE: (212) 998-2522 FAX: (212) 995-4583 E-MAIL: vinopalj@elmer4.bobst.nyu.edu WWW:
http://www.nyu.edu/studio
RESOURCES: The Studio provides scholarly electronic
resources and librarian support for computer-assisted research
in non-technical disciplines. At the Studio, users can find
full-text and non-print, electronic, scholarly, primary-source
materials housed in Bobst Library, and the Studio Web site
offers links to such resources available to the NYU community
by subscription and for free on the Web. ***** NAME: Electronic Text Project ADDRESS: Northwestern University Library 1935 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208 CONTACT: Sally Roberts E-MAIL: sroberts@nwu.edu WWW: http://www.library.nwu.edu/resources/NUL
RESOURCES: Through the Web server, the Elextronic Text Project provides to the
Northwestern community access to the Oxford English Dictionary as well as electronic
editions of works by Jane Austen, John Milton, Chaucer and Shakespeare and treatises by
George Berkeley, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, David Hume and John Stuart Mill. The list of
resources is growing. ***** NAME: Renascence Editions CONTACT: Richard Bear, Documents and Microforms Supervisor PHONE: (541) 346-0763 E-MAIL: rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu WWW: http://www.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm
RESOURCES: Public domain English language texts originating 1477-1799. There are 110
titles at present. The mission has not changed: "A collection of texts in English or
English translation, with emphasis on Renaissance thought. The purpose of the Scriptorum
archive is two-fold: 1) to serve as a repository of portable texts suitable for faculty
and student research, and 2) to serve as a publisher of such texts on behalf of students
and faculty who elect to produce them." NAME: Electronic Text Center ADDRESS: Fondren Library MS44, P.O. Box 1892, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251-1892 CONTACT: Lisa Spiro PHONE: 713-348-2594 E-MAIL: erc-info@rice.edu WWW: http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Fondren/ETC/
RESOURCES: The ETC houses a growing number of stand-alone and online full-text
resources and text analysis applications. The Center also features scanning equipment,
several OCR applications, multimedia tools, and graphics software. ETC staff offer
seminars and consultations for Rice faculty and students, sponsor technology showcases,
and host regional workshops to promote the integration of technology into research and
teaching. ***** NAME: Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH) ADDRESS: Alexander Library, 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1163
CONTACT: Brian Hancock PHONE: (732) 932-8573 x195 FAX: (732) 932-1101 E-MAIL: bhancock@rci.rutgers.edu WWW: http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu
RESOURCES: CETH is a research and development center for the Humanities
within the larger Scholarly Communication Center (SCC). CETH is currently researching grid
computing for the Humanities using the experimental operating system from Bell labs, Plan 9. The SCC
itself is a fully networked facility with over 70 workstations for research and instruction. ***** NAME: Electronic Text Services AFFILIATION: The University of Chicago Library and the ARTFL Project ADDRESS: The University of Chicago Library, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chcago, IL 60637 CONTACT: Catherine Mardikes, Electronic Text Services Coordinator PHONE: 773-702-2783
E-MAIL: c-mardikes@uchicago.edu WWW: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/ets/ RESOURCES: ETS delivers variously-encoded text collections and
reference works by way of the Web for the University of Chicago
community and for other universities participating in a
Chadwyck-Healey or Bibliopolis access agreement and for subscribers
to ARTFL. ***** NAME: Electronic Text Center ADDRESS: Alderman Library, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 PHONE: (804) 924-3230 E-MAIL: etext@virginia.edu WWW: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ RESOURCES: The Center combines an on-line archive of tens of thousands
of SGML and XML-encoded electronic texts and images with a library
service that offers hardware and software suitable for the creation
and analysis of text. Through ongoing training sessions and support
of teaching and research projects, the Center is building a diverse
user community locally, serving thousands of users globally, and
providing a model for similar humanities computing enterprises at
other institutions. ***** NAME: Digital Library and Archives (formerly: Scholarly Communications Project) ADDRESS: University Libraries Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University P.O.
Box 90001 Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001 CONTACT: Gail McMillan, Director E-MAIL: gailmac@vt.edu WWW: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu RESOURCES: The Scholarly Communications Project began in 1989 by
helping one faculty editor put a new journal online. Today it has 18
active titles and 5 "dead" titles. This is a library service provided
for faculty editors at Virginia Tech as well as other universities.
It is also a mirror site for MIT Press' ejournals. It provides access
to online news reports from WDBJ7, the regional CBS affiliate designed
and continues to oversee the library's electronic reserve system. Nationally and internationally known for ETDs (Electronic Theses and Dissertations),
the collection has grown to over 2400. This is a result of the SCP
collaboration with the VT Graduate School to design and implement
all phases of the collection, from author submission, to Graduate
School approval, to archiving and user access. Virginia Tech received
a FIPSE grant which helped to establish the NDLTD (Networked Digital
Library of Theses and Dissertatons) which now has over 80 universities
members worldwide who have a combined collection of 7500 ETDs. The VT ImageBase is a database containing over 14,000 digital images with
metadata based on an early implementation of the Dublin Core. SCP,
which changed its name in July 1999 to the Digital Library and Archives,
is a department within University Libraries at Virginia Tech. DLA
continues to work with faculty from VT and other universities to put
scholarly information online. Experimentation is an important activity, along with making the digital library truly a library. ***** NAME: Electronic Text Center AFFILIATION: Yale University Library ADDRESS: Research Services & Collections, Sterling Memorial Library, 130 Wall
Street, New Haven, CT 06520 CONTACT: Marianna McKim, Acting Coordinator, Electronic Text Center PHONE: 203-432-8373 FAX: 203-432-8527 E-MAIL: etc@yale.edu WWW: http://www.library.yale.edu/etc/ RESOURCES: Thousands of electronic texts, primarily on cd-rom and floppy disk, in all
areas of the Humanities. Textual analysis tools include TACT, Micro-OCP, and WordCruncher. See the Web page for hours and detailed holdings ***** ***** NAME: Electronic Text Centre ADDRESS: Harriet Irving Library, University of New Brunswick,
5 Macaulay Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick CANADA E3B 5H5 CONTACT: Alan Burk, Director PHONE: (506) 453-4740
E-MAIL: burk@unb.ca
WWW: http://ultratext.hil.unb.ca/Texts/ RESOURCES: The Electronic Text Centre is a multi-faceted electronic publishing enterprise.
The Centre prepares and publishes electronic texts and images to standards, including
SGML/XML encoded special collection texts and electronic journals. The Centre's
imaging services include automated processes for capturing and archiving
high-resolution digital images. As part of its mandate, the Centre lends technical and
educational support to University of New Brunswick faculty, students, and to other
institutions for the development of Web-based publishing projects.
***** NAME: University of Waterloo Library Electronic Text Center AFFILIATION: University of Waterloo Library ADDRESS: Dana Porter Library, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 CONTACT: Librarians, Information Services and Resources Division, Dana
Porter Library, University of Waterloo, serve as contacts PHONE: 1-519-888-4567 FAX: 1-519-888-4324 WWW: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/etc/
RESOURCES: The focus of the initial collection is on machine-readable
versions of primary texts in the isciplines of Classics, English, French, German, and Philosophy. Whenever
possible access to these resources has been provided via the World Wide Web
to facilitate remote distribution and ease of use in incorporating
computer-based textual information into research, study and teaching. ***** NAME: Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) ADDRESS: University of Sydney Library, University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Australia AFFILIATION: University of Sydney Library CONTACT: Dr. Creagh Cole, Coordinator SETIS PHONE: 61-2-9351-7408 FAX: 61-2-9351-7290 E-MAIL: c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au WWW:
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au RESOURCES: SETIS was established in 1996 to support and
encourage textual studies at the University of Sydney by the
provision of primary source texts in electronic form, computers
and associated software. A large collection of texts and text
databases on CD-Rom are available for use at the library. Many
of these are also networked to the campus using the Open Text 5.0
search engine. SETIS has scanning equipment, OCR software and text
analysis programs such as TACT. IBM, Macintosh and X-terminals
are available. In addition to networking SGML-encoded text
databases to the web, SETIS has created a large number of texts,
particularly Australian literary and historical texts, and these are freely
available at the web site. These texts have been encoded according to
the TEI guidelines. SETIS participates in a number of national projects
such as the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project; The Australian
Literary Manuscripts EAD Project; and the Australian Digital Theses project. *****
Check the Digital Libraries
Initiatives Web site at University of Illinois, Urbabana Champaign for updated
links on new digital libraries projects. Here are links to the six digital library projects sponsored by the first National Science
Foundation (NSF), the Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA),
and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as part of the inter-agency
Digital Library Initiative (DLI): ***** Alexandria Digital Library at the University of California, Santa Barbara WWW: http://www.alexandria.ucsb.edu/
***** Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Project WWW: http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/ ***** UIUC Digital Library Testbed WWW: http://dli.grainger.uiuc.edu/idli/idli.htm
***** Stanford Digital Library Project WWW: http://diglib.stanford.edu/ ***** Univ. of California at Berkeley Digital Library WWW: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/ ***** University of Michigan Digital Library Project WWW: http://www.si.umich.edu/UMDL
University of Kentucky
Michigan State University
University of Michigan
University of Nebraska
New York University
Northwestern University
University of Oregon
Rice University
Rutgers University
University of Chicago
University of Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Yale University
ELECTRONIC TEXT CENTERS OUTSIDE THE U.S.
CANADA - University of New Brunswick
CANADA - University of Waterloo
AUSTRALIA - University of Sydney
DIGITAL LIBRARY PROJECTS