This project will "develop, deploy, and evaluate a digital library capable of supporting the needs of humanities and social science disciplines." The following economics journals, dating from their inception to 1990, will be digitized: journals to be digitized are: The American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. For the first year trial, this collection will be available at the University of Michigan, Denison University, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Swarthmore, and Williams College. One hopes that it will quickly be expanded.
This project is being run by the University of Michigan's School of Information and Library Studies, College of Engineering, and the University Libraries and the Information Technology Division, with funding from the Mellon Foundation. It is also a being run in conjunction with a grant the University of Michigan has received from the NSF for work on digital libraries, and the University of Michigan Digital Libraries (UMDL) project, which includes a number of private industry partners.
Bill Goffe <bgoffe@whale.st.usm.edu>