The Institute also addresses itself, wherever possible, to topics and challenges of general importance for electronic scholarship across the disciplines. Fellows in Residence receive office space, teaching release time, partial support for a graduate research assistant, use of computer equipment, software, and maximum technical support. These Fellows have embarked on ambitious, multi-year projects that will, in many cases, redefine scholarship in their respective disciplines. Much of the work of the Fellowship year is devoted to project design, collection of primary data, digitizing of analog information, and testing of technical and methodological approaches. Fellows in Residence become associate fellows after the first year.
Associate fellows receive equipment, software, and technical support appropriate to the project.
Associate fellows are provided with consulting on project design and on technical issues, are invited to attend Institute staff meetings with the Fellows in Residence and the technical staff, and are given access to a wide variety of Institute-maintained facilities. Associate Fellows retain their status until the completion of their projects or until they are selected as Fellows in Residence. Scholars may apply for these fellowships individually or as workgroups. The Institute also invites applications from technologists interested in the work of the Institute. Networked Associate Fellows retain their status until the completion of their projects, or until they or the Institute find outside funding to bring them on campus as Fellows in Residence.