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The project will include articles written by faculty and researchers, technical reports from MIT labs and centers, and other electronic content deemed valuable by the MIT Libraries or its partners among the schools, labs and centers at the university. The electronic formats will include text, images, audio, video and datasets.
"The digital archive will supplement, rather than replace, commercial publication by the MIT community," said Eric Celeste, assistant director for Technology Planning and Administration for MIT Libraries. "The archive will capture `preprint' versions of documents destined for publication elsewhere, as well as supporting data and images that would otherwise not be shared with the scholarly community."
The Libraries' website "http://libraries.mit.edu" presents information about library services and provides access for the MIT community to 200 databases and 1200 electronic journals. Employing a staff of over 250, the MIT Libraries maintain membership in the Association of Research Libraries, the International Association of Technological University Libraries, the Online Computer Library Center, and the Boston Library Consortium.