Promoting your Digital Collection

There are 3 key locations at Harvard to list your digital project to ensure it has visibility to the Harvard community, to the broader scholarly community and to the public:

1. HOLLIS
2. E-Research at Harvard Libraries
3. Harvard web pages
1. A Selection of Web-accessible Collections
2. Digital Harvard
3. Harvard Libraries portal

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.

E-Research at Harvard Libraries

See examples of other digital collections listed in E-Research. To add your collection, fill out the Free Resource Acquisition and Description Form.

Harvard web pages

Eligibility: in order to be included, a project must have an existing web site with browseable content and a description of the collection. 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. Since the primary audience is the public, no effort is made to instruct people on how to search the catalogs or do research at Harvard.

To list your project on the web pages, please send the following information to :

• Collection name
• URN (preferred) or URL
• 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

Note: If the URL of your collection ever changes, we need advance notice! as soon as you know of the change.