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Technological resource and support

Units specifically dedicated to providing electronic resources, tools and assistance to students and members of academic departments, here sorted by their administrative unit.

Arts faculty centres

1. Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto (Canada) [X], a computing facility in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences that promotes computing in research and teaching within the humanities and social sciences departments; supports a number of institutes, centres, and other units within the University; maintains and operates the highly successful CHASS Data Centre, a collection of social sciences and general interest databases.
2. Humanities Computing, Dartmouth (U.S.) [X], runs a faculty lab, provides workshops, tutorials, one-on-one advising, technical support.
3. Humanities Computing Facility, University of California at Irvine (U.S.) [X], provides Web development, computing labs, computer accounts and technical support.
4. Humanities Computing Project, Witwatersrand (South Africa) [X], aims to promote computer-assisted learning, teaching and research within the Arts Faculty in line with developments in the humanities at many universities in other parts of the world, and with global trends to use information technology for academic work; serves all 24 departments of the Faculty.
5. Humanities Computing Team, Rice (U.S.) [X], enhances the work of the faculty, staff, and graduate students in the Rice University School of Humanities by supporting their computing needs.

Computing centre groups and divisions

1. Humanities Computing Group, New York University (U.S.) [X], a subject-specific group at NYU's Academic Computing Services that supports the use of new technologies in humanities teaching and research.
2. Humanities Digital Workshop, Washington University in Saint Louis, a division of the computing unit for the School of Arts & Sciences that supports faculty research projects (usually those that are grant-funded) in the Humanities and Social Sciences that have a significant electronic component.
3. Humanities Research Computing, Northwestern (U.S.) [X], focuses on technological support for humanities research; relational and SGML data modeling; WWW delivery of SGML and RDBMS based e-text and media archives; custom integration of networked resources.
4. Literary and Linguistic Computing Centre, Cambridge (U.K.) [X], a small team within the Computing Service which provides specialised support for postgraduate and established scholars in the Arts and Humanities departments.
5. Teaching, Learning and Research Support Courseware Development, Melbourne (Australia) [X], works with academic departments and faculties in transforming teaching and learning by the use of multimedia and related educational technologies.

Library-based units

1. Center for CD-ROM Reference and Full Text Databases, Yale (U.S.) [X], provides members of the Yale community with access to electronic texts, multi-media resources, and web development tools.
2. Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities, Rutgers (U.S.) [X], sponsors and supports computing-related projects, including provision of electronic source materials; holds technical workshops.
3. Digital Knowledge Center, Johns Hopkins (U.S.) [X], provides equipment and expertise to facilitate the development and creation of digital curricular, instructional and informational resources which further instruction, research and scholarship.
4. Digital Library and Archives, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (U.S.) [X], assists in the creation of online resources such as electronic journals, and use of electronic library services; designs and maintains systems including those for electronic theses and dissertations and digital images.
5. Digital Library Project, Berkeley (U.S.) [X], develops the tools and technologies to support highly improved models of the "scholarly information life cycle"; its goal is to facilitate the move from the current centralized, discrete publishing model, to a distributed, continuous, and self-publishing model, while still preserving the best aspects of the current model such as peer review.
6. Digital Resources Center, Pennsylvania State University (U.S.) [X], collects and provides access to electronic text and multimedia materials in the Arts and Humanities.
7. Electronic Resources Center, Rice (U.S.) [X], functions as an alternative computing space, where faculty, students, staff, and others can explore new electronic resources; makes available electronic texts as well as hardware and software for the creation and analysis of electronic texts.
8. Electronic Text Center, Cornell (U.S.) [X], provides access to scholarly electronic text and multimedia documents; helps to identify, acquire, and organize electronic texts, text analysis, and multimedia programs; instructs and consults with users; supports students and faculty.
9. Electronic Text Centre, Dalhousie (Canada) [X], a service that provides WWW access to full-text documents, a computer-accessible archive for faculty and student research projects in the humanities, scholarly publications, university materials and special projects.
10. Electronic Text Centre, New Brunswick (Canada) [X], a multi-faceted electronic publishing enterprise that prepares and publishes electronic texts and images to standards; offers imaging services for capturing and archiving high-resolution digital images; lends technical and educational support to University of New Brunswick faculty, students, and to other institutions for the development of Web-based publishing projects.
11. Electronic Text Service, Columbia (U.S.) [X], 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.
12. Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory, New York, (U.S.) [X]. Provides an extensive range of digital collection building services for the five partners of the Center for Jewish History, from digitization and metadata creation/enhancement through to digital asset management and delivery to end users.
13. Humanities Text Initiative, Michigan (U.S.) [X], an umbrella organization for the acquisition, creation and maintenance of electronic texts, as well as a mechanism for furthering the University's capabilities in the area of online text.
14. Informedia Digital Video Library, Carnegie Mellon (U.S.) [X], a research initiative that studies how multimedia digital libraries can be established and used.
15. Lewis H. Beck Center for Electronic Collections and Services, Emory (U.S.) [X], promotes and supports the use of scholarly electronic collections by Emory University faculty, students and staff.
16. Oxford Digital Library, Oxford (U.K.) [X], is a key-component of the e-strategy of Oxford University Library Services (OULS). It has been established to create the intellectual framework and to develop the technical infrastructure for an enhanced service, providing online access to the vast scholarly library collections of Oxford University.
17. Library Electronic Text Resource Service, Indiana-Bloomington (U.S.) [X], provides humanities-related electronic texts, works to build and support a user community and supports the electronic text components of Indiana University's Digital Library Program projects and initiatives.
18. New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, Victoria University of Wellington [X] provides significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts (TEI XML delivered through a Topic Map framework)
19. Scholarly Digital Resources Center, Iowa (U.S.) [X], fosters the creation and use of digitized collections and resources of interest to the University of Iowa community.
20. Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS), Sydney (Australia) [X], provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full-text databases, primarily but not exclusively, source texts within the humanities. In addition to these literary, philosophical and religious texts the service is engaged in a number of text and image creation projects.
21. Scholarly Publishing Office (SPO), Michigan (U.S.) [X], a division of the University Library which serves the scholarly community by providing sustainable electronic publishing services, supporting local control of intellectual assets, and exploring opportunities to extend and disseminate library collections.
22. The Scholars' Lab, Virginia (U.S.) [X], combines the services and resources of the former Electronic Text (Etext) and Geostat (Geospatial and Statistical Analysis) centers at the University of Virginia with a Research Computing Support unit and a Digital Scholarship R&D group.
23. Stanford Digital Library Technologies, Stanford (U.S.) [X], a project to design and implement the infrastructure and services needed for collaboratively creating, disseminating, sharing and managing information in a digital library context.
24. The Studio for Digital Projects and Research, New York University (U.S.) [X], supports experimentation with and creation of technology applications in the Arts, Humanities and related disciplines. It is a collaborative facility of NYU Libraries & Information Technology Services (ITS).

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