Bringing Text Alive:
The Future of Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Electronic Publication

The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) project was founded at the University of Michigan and Oxford University in 1999 to reinvent scholarship by creating fully searchable texts of thousands of titles printed across three hundred years and two continents of English and American history.

TCP includes texts selected from three commercially produced page image collections, Early English Books Online (EEBO), available from ProQuest Information and Learning, Evans Early American Imprints (Evans), available from Newsbank-Readex and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), available from Thomson-Gale. As the TCP project reaches the halfway mark of its original goals, it seems a good time to investigate how it brings literature in all disciplines to life in this exciting conference.

The conference will bring together scholars, students, librarians, publishers, and others to investigate how electronic resources like EEBO, Evans, ECCO, and the TCP:
• Change the landscape of scholarship and pedagogy,
• Transform teaching models,
• Promote new methods of scholarship,
• Enrich scholarly communication,
• Revolutionize electronic publication,
• and aid digital library development