The HumBox Project – Storing, Managing and Publishing Humananities Teaching Resources On the Web
http://humbox.eprints.org/

The HumBox project aims to publish a bank of good quality humanities resources online for free download and sharing, and in doing so, to create a community of Humanities specialists who are willing to share their teaching materials and collaborate with others to peer review and enhance existing resources. The resources published as part of our project will be placed in the HumBox, an innovative new online storage area for teaching and learning materials. Their aims are: 1) to discover, review and revise digital resources from a range of Humanities disciplines and to share them as open content; 2) to provide a trusted and sustainable community repository; 3) to create an expanding national community of peers committed to sharing and reviewing online resources from a range of subject areas in their own disciplinary contexts, which have a global reach; 4) to embed the culture of shared, open educational resources across the Humanities community fostering an increased awareness of and commitment to sharing Humanities resources; 5) to meet the need for a light touch process of peer review and quality enhancement in the delivery of shared learning resources; 6) to provide solutions to practical obstacles inhibiting the sharing or resources across the Humanities. In particular attention will be focused on metadata, licensing, copyright and intellectual property rights; and 7) to create a robust model to sustain the further development of HumBox in the future. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.,