About the Shared Digital Repository: What is the Shared Digital Repository?
Each university will “deposit” their digitized public domain files into a commonly funded and managed data storage system so the universities can securely archive their public domain holdings collectively and provide immediate access to the full content of these materials for faculty, students and the broader public. This groundbreaking collaboration will bring together the holdings of some of the world’s largest libraries into one digital resource. The Shared Digital Repository will enable the universities to build and offer services core to their educational mission and specific to the academic community, such as the organization and archiving of content for scholarly purposes (for instance, the search functions can be customized to meet the needs of specialized user communities). The Shared Digital Repository will enable scholars to access a vast array of material immediately, produce customized searches, and perhaps even discover new information previously too difficult to access o
