DART - Digitised Archive Resources for Teaching

The Digitised Archive Resources for Teaching (DART) service aims to provide high quality digital images of original archive material for use in teaching at the University of York.  The service will aim to provide digital images within 20 working days of a request being submitted.

By providing digital access, we are hoping to open up the use of archives in taught programmes by enabling the incorporation of primary sources into lectures, seminars and course reading, outside the controlled environment of the Borthwick searchroom. The service will provide students with digital access to unique source material exclusive to the University of York. We hope that engagement with the archives as part of taught modules will inspire associated research making use of Borthwick collections.

The Borthwick Institute holds archives pertaining to a broad range of subject areas, of interest to the Sciences and Social Sciences as well as the Arts and Humanities. If you are unfamiliar with the Borthwick’s holdings, please get in touch with us at borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk and we will be able to discuss which archives may be of relevance to your teaching. In the meantime, the Borthwick catalogue (Borthcat) can be browsed by topic here, and an overview of our holdings can be found here.

DART is a free service exclusively for use on taught programmes at the University of York. The Borthwick asks that the document reference remains visible on images during their use.

The Borthwick will not release images which are sensitive, confidential or under copyright. If documents require significant interventive conservation work in order for them to be able to be imaged safely, this work may not be able to be carried out within the advertised timescale. In these instances we may not be able to provide images.

It is expected that any issues such as these will be known at the start of the process during initial correspondence.