Unlike many other on-line humanities collections, the EServer allows you to contribute your own work or become an editor of a collection. That is, you can submit articles, fiction, poetry or other work, or act as 'curator' of a collection. Because we are not a commercial enterprise, you retain control and ownership of the work you do. Lastly, because the EServer is a collective managed by many of its 226 active members, it's not nearly as bureaucratic as most larger corporate and official academic websites. It's run as a labor of love by people genuinely interested in the academic collections we manage.
Today there are various 'free' hosting sites available on the Internet.
Some of these, such as GeoCities and Tripod, generate profit by attaching advertising to the information that volunteer editors post on their websites. Other sites collect detailed marketing information in exchange for hosting sites. And a few actually have agreements in which people who post their works 'free of charge' actually sign over part or all of their intellectual property rights to the works. We don't do that. Members may also easily publish works to individuals, private groups, the University of Washington campus or to the Internet work of university, corporate and public-access computer networks.