Our Americas Archive Partnership (OAAP) is an innovative digital humanities project with a view to supporting scholarly inquiry into the Americas from a hemispheric perspective. Scholars, librarians and technologists are collaborating to develop an integrated approach to discovering, accessing and using scholarly works that exist in multiple digital repositories. The resulting resource will enable new forms of research as well as new objects of study, supporting an interactive community of scholarly inquiry.

OAAP is a partnership between Rice University’s Fondren Library and Humanities Research Center (HRC), the University of Maryland’s Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and the Instituto Mora in Mexico. In addition to the support that is provided by the partners, the project is funded by a 2007 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). To learn more about IMLS, please visit:

"We plan to develop innovative research tools that will help generate a collaborative, transnational research community.”
Caroline Levander, HRC director