Promoting your Digital Collection
There are 4 key locations at Harvard to list your digital collection to ensure visibility to the Harvard community, to the broader scholarly community and to the public:
- E-Research at Harvard Libraries
- HOLLIS
- Harvard web pages
E-Research at Harvard Libraries
First step is to request that your collection be listed as a resource on the E-Research site. See examples of other digital collections listed in E-Research.
To send an E-Research request, submit the Free Resource Acquisition and Description Form. In the Resources type/sub-category area of the form, select "Harvard digital collections".
Once the resource is added, the E-Research team will respond with an e-resource URN (a persistent URL to your collection). Use this URN as the official link to your collection.
HOLLIS
Adding a catalog record in HOLLIS is generally a decentralized activity handled according to local department practices. For more information, contact the head of cataloging for your unit.
When adding a link to your collection from a HOLLIS record, be sure to use the e-resource URN.
Harvard web pages
There are 2 Harvard web sites that list digital collections:
The primary focus of these pages is to demonstrate Harvard's freely available online library materials and to share the digital collections with the public.
To be included on these sites, a collection must have its own web presence with browseable content and a description of the collection.
To list your collection on these pages, please send the following information to :
- Collection name
- URN (preferred) or URL. Note: URN is always preferred. Using a URL means you will need to notify us if the URL ever changes.
- Brief description including: how many, of what, and from where?
- Images to represent the collection. We are happy to select and size them for you. If you would like to select and size the images yourself, please forward:
- 3-5 horizontally oriented images at least 300 pixels wide
- 5-7 vertically oriented images at least 300 pixels wide
- 5-7 squarish images at least 190 pixels wide