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26 October 2009
In collaboration with the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Documents Compass group, Rotunda today releases Founders Early Access, our first open-access publication. Founders Early Access makes available for the first time thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders in a free online resource. Collected over many years by the Founders documentary editions, these letters and other papers penned by important figures such as James Madison, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson offer Americans of all ages and interests a wider view of the early Republic.
30 September 2009
Today Rotunda releases the digital edition of The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions. The digital edition allows users to search the complete contents by date, title, author, recipient, or state affiliation and preserves the copious annotations of the print edition.
29 July 2009
In connection with the review process that resulted in the awarding of the Modern Language Association’s CSE seal of approval to John Bryant’s Herman Melville’s Typee: A Fluid-Text Edition, a number of corrections and expansions have been added to the edition. The list of changes is available in a revision log.
29 June 2009
The third installment of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition is now published, adding over two hundred documents mainly from 1836 and later, most of them connected with Dolley Madison’s complex and burdensome task of settling her late husband’s will. In addition to personal correspondence, the new installment includes many legal documents connected to the settlement and reprinted articles from newspapers and periodicals concerning James Madison’s papers and estate.
1 May 2009
Typee edition awarded CSE seal of approval. John Bryant’s Herman Melville’s Typee: A Fluid-Text Edition has been designated an Approved Edition by the Committee on Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association. This is only the second digital edition (following the William Blake Archive) to be awarded the CSE seal. Since 1976 the CSE has been the preeminent review organization certifying the reliability of scholarly literary editions published in North America.
13 April 2009
On Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, we are launching The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition. Included are the first 33 volumes of the letterpress edition (publication dates through 2006). Edited by Barbara B. Oberg, this XML-based edition is the perfect entrance to the extensive writings of our third president, author of the Declaration of Independence, champion of religious freedom, architect, inventor, master of Monticello, and founder of the University of Virginia. Users can search this life in letters by name, date, author and recipient; they can even conduct French-language searches. The digital edition of the first three volumes of the Jefferson Papers Retirement series, edited by J. Jefferson Looney, will follow later this year.
26 March 2009
New Rotunda server! We have upgraded from our old 32-bit server to a new 64-bit CPU with considerably more memory and speed. We’re still running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Users should notice a bit more pep in response to searches and other CPU-intensive requests. (And should you happen to notice any buggy behavior, please notify us via the feedback link at the bottom of every publication page.)
4 March 2009
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has been expanded with the full content of three volumes that have appeared in print since the online edition was first prepared. These volumes are Revolutionary War Series 15: May–June 1778 (published in 2006), Revolutionary War Series 16: July–September (2006), and Presidential Series 13: 1 June–31 August 1793 (2007). All their documents have been integrated into the chronological and print-edition tables of contents, and their index entries have been edited and added to the consolidated index.
26 December 2008
Today we formally launch Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences, edited by Martha Nell Smith and Lara Vetter, with Ellen Louise Hart as consulting editor. EDC gathers 74 poems and letters from Emily’s correspondence with her sister-in-law and primary confidante, Susan Dickinson. Each text is presented with a digitized scan of the holograph manuscript. These images have zoom functionality as well as a special light-box feature that allows users to view and compare constellations of related documents. Users may search by date, genre, manuscript features, and full text. Dating from the 1850s to the end of Dickinson’s life, the work collected in EDC shows all the characteristics of the poet’s mature art.
14 November 2008

Rotunda today releases our beta version of the entirely redesigned American Founding Era platform and the first of our publications to be included in it, The Adams Papers Digital Edition.

The new platform provides a single entry point into all of the separate publications of The American Founding Era. Searching can be done across the entire collection, and chronological navigation at the top level combines all documents in the collection into a single tree organized by decade, year, month, and day. Content from our existing Founding Era publications, The Dolley Madison Digital Edition and The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition, has been included in the consolidated platform. (Once work on the Founders platform is complete, the original version of PGWDE will no longer be maintained. Because the DMDE contains a unique interface based on features not shared by other Founders projects, it will continue to exist in its full form as a standalone publication.)

Our digital edition of The Adams Papers is based on 30 volumes from the letterpress edition created by the Massachusetts Historical Society and published by Harvard University Press. Like PGWDE, it is fully searchable and can be navigated following either chronology or the ordering of the print volumes.

22 September 2008
Our Papers of George Washington Digital Edition was listed among the Outstanding Academic Web Sites of 2007 in the August 2008 edition of Choice Reviews Online.
12 March 2008
ROTUNDA’s Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has been named as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles 2007 by the American Library Association’s Choice magazine (see the 4 September 2007 entry below for excerpts from the Choice review).
17 December 2007
ROTUNDA cited by the W3C: The Dolley Madison Digital Edition is noted as an example of XQuery in Action on the World Wide Web Consortium's XQuery page.
28 November 2007
We have added information about Rotunda and the Electronic Imprint of the University of Virginia Press to our About page, along with a new Research and Reports page that will link to publications and presentations by our staff and authors.
4 September 2007

The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has recently received two strong recommendations from reviewers in the library community. Cheryl LaGuardia’s eReview for Library Journal awards it a 9.5 on her 10-point scale. A review in the August 2007 issue of CHOICE calls PGWDE “a notable achievement” that “weaves a web of cross-referencing and indexing that permits researchers an ease of access not possible using only the print” edition, and ranks it as “highly recommended” for all academic collections (CHOICE Reviews Online, August 2007 [articles viewable by subscribers only]).

11 July 2007

The second installment of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition is published, adding nearly two hundred documents written after James Madison’s death on June 28, 1836, and extending the chronology of the DMDE through early April 1837. New features include an expanded biographical introduction; detailed editorial notes on topics of relevance to multiple letters; improved searching; and an entirely new Place Browser. See the DMDE What’s New page for full details.

20 June 2007
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition has been upgraded in two areas. Names of authors and recipients on the search page have been regularized, and repository symbols in the edition have been updated to conform to the current MARC standards. Please see the PGWDE News page for full details.
19 June 2007
In a plenary session at the 2007 meeting of the Assocation of American University Presses, publishing consultant and guru Joseph Esposito (former president of Merriam-Webster and CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica) refers to Rotunda as his first choice for the "most innovative" digital project sponsored by a university press.
1 March 2007
Holly Shulman, editor of The Dolley Madison Digital Edition, recently published an article on the History News Network reflecting on her experience creating a born-digital historical edition: “Doing Digital History,” 8 January 2007.
19 February 2007
The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition is released today. It presents in a single online edition the full text of the 52 volumes published by UVa Press through 2005, including annotations and a consolidated index. Updates consisting of new volumes will follow periodically.
1 February 2007
Updates on New Releases: The Papers of George Washington Digital Edition is in beta and scheduled for release on President’s Day, 19 February 2007. A new group of letters is scheduled for addition to the Dolley Madison Digital Edition in spring 2007.
24 July 2006
The Rotunda logo created by the Ventress Design Group has been recognized in the 2006 edition of Global Corporate Identity edited by David E. Carter, an annual volume that “showcases the past year’s best corporate designs in the categories of logos, letterheads, package design, complete identity programs, corporate identity manuals, signage & environmental graphics, and corporate brochures.”
24 July 2006
Holly Shulman, editor of the Dolley Madison Digital Edition, was the June 2006 recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for completion of the DMDE and the launch of Women of the Founding Era.
7 July 2006
We have added a digital version of the first British edition of Typee to John Bryant’s Herman Melville’s Typee: A Fluid-Text Edition. This version includes a complete transcription of the edition along with digital images of each page, plus the book covers and spine. To the best of our knowledge this is the first complete online version of this important edition of the novel.
8 May 2006
Rotunda has a new production server hosting rotunda.upress.virginia.edu, a dual-processor Dell 3.8GHz machine running Red Hat Linux. This should make searching and retrieval of our publications much speedier. Although we have spent time checking over all the publications, it is possible that the move to a new server has introduced a glitch or two; please contact us to report any bugs you encounter.
4 April 2006
The index to The Letters of Matthew Arnold has been updated so that page references to the introduction from volume 1 of the print edition are now active hyperlinks to the start of the “page” in the digital edition.
15 March 2006
We’ve added an RSS feed (see icon at bottom of page, or in your browser address bar). Subscribe to be updated on new publications and additions to existing ones.
8 March 2006
– Rotunda releases five publications in our new Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Collection. Our pages have been redesigned to offer purchasers an entrance page that can be bookmarked for ready access to publications, and there is a new top-level search for the 19th-Century Collection.
– We have a new production server on order for Rotunda. Searches and retrieval times will be impressively faster once it’s up and running, we hope.
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