The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) has announced the recipients of its inaugural Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. For the inaugural round, HTRC received a total of nine proposals from scholars from a broad set of institutions and research fields.
Each proposal was carefully reviewed for feasibility, research methodology, suitability of the proposed collaboration to HTRC staff availability, availability of the needed data in time for project beginning, and potential adaptability of the outcomes to the broader HTRC community. Three projects were selected in the first round:
Additionally, an ACS award was made to Dr. Michelle Alexopolous, a scholar in economics from the University of Toronto, who is tracking technology diffusion through time using the HT corpus.
Each awardee will have dedicated HTRC staff time for a period of 3-6 months. Subsequently, HTRC looks forward to engaging another round of ACS awardees.
HTRC ACS program is funded in part by HathiTrust, Indiana University, and University of Illinois.
