Early on, a lot of energy went into digitizing texts and creating online repositories like the Walt Whitman Archive. But second-generation projects are focusing on the interpretive possibilities offered by those digital resources. That has opened up lines of critical inquiry difficult to imagine in the predigital era.

Stanford University Libraries' guidelines for digitization projects.

Publish yourself online. Upload documents and share them with the world. Browse a library of docs others have uploaded. An open digital repository of sorts.

DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories [Interesting interface with faceted browsing, the ability to set a profile to be notified of new research in your field and a community feature.] Tuesday, 13 November 2007 An international partnership has started work on a project to build a large-scale public infrastructure for research information across Europe. The "Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research" (DRIVER) project responds to the vision that any form of scientific-content resource, including scientific/technical reports, research articles, experimental or observational data, rich media and other digital objects should be freely accessible through simple Internet-based infrastructures. The new DRIVER repository infrastructure will enable researchers to plug into the new knowledge base and use scientific content in a standardised, open way. The project is funded by the European Commission under the auspices of the "Research Infrastructure" unit.

Columbia University has created a Web site to educate elementary and secondary students about the civil-rights and black-power movements spanning 1954 through 1975. The site, called the Amistad Digital Resource, includes audio and video clips of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil-rights leaders. It also includes FBI documents and maps where civil-rights demonstrations took place.

The University of California announced this week that its widely used eScholarship Repository has surpassed the 5 million mark for full-text downloads of its open access scholarly content. This major milestone reflects the impressive adoption and usage rate the repository has enjoyed since its inception in 2002, with University of California academic units and departments from its 10 campuses publishing or depositing more than 20,000 papers and works. The eScholarship Repository, a service of the California Digital Library, provides a robust full-spectrum, open access publishing platform for pre-prints, post-prints, peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals. The repository houses a broad range of scholarly content from disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, mathematics and sciences. The rate of usage of these materials has grown exponentially in the past five years, now often exceeding 55,000 full-text downloads per week.

Includes both licensed (restricted to U Mich users) and public collections of images.

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Audio archive of interviews with African-Americans who moved to Detroit in the last century to get away from discrimination and Jim Crow laws in the southern United States. Detroiters ranging in age from 65 to 90 recount their migration to Detroit from New Orleans, Houston, Beloit (Alabama), Wilton (Arkansas), and other parts of the South. The project which began in 2004 was part of a Teacher-Scholar award received by Professor Dena Scher in the Psychology/ Social Sciences Department of Marygrove College. These digital interviews were conducted by Dr. Scher's students who interviewed relatives about their experiences during the “Jim Crow” days and their subsequent migration to the North. Other interviews come from the “Black Storytellers Association of Detroit” and from a participant in the Greensboro Sit-in demonstrations that occurred in February 1960. Each interview has audio files (MP3) and an interview index or transcript.