The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) at the University of Michigan is bringing together the
international library community with commercial scholarly publishers to support the creation of
accurately keyboarded and encoded editions of thousands of culturally significant works in all
fields of scholarly and artistic endeavor. The underlying principles of the TCP are mindful of
the long-term needs of libraries, scholars and the larger society. TCP projects are notable for
the quality and cost-effectiveness of their content, as well as for the underlying principles of
the Partnership that:
- Convey robust rights of use to scholars;
- Protect the public domain rights of the larger society to access out-of-copyright materials;
- Present the user with accurately keyed, modern texts that are faithful to the spellings and
organization of the original works;
- Ensure that this content will migrate forward through shifts in technology to represent
editions of enduring value to libraries.
The net effect of the TCP initiatives has been to maximize the respective strengths of commercial
and academic digital library development for the long-term benefit of researchers and students.
