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The Institute supports projects in scholarly editing, textual study, and bibliography with facilities, equipment, assistance, and shared expertise. It seeks to provide state-of-the-art computer systems for processing, editing, and production of accurate texts and research tools.
At present faculty members in the English, History and Music departments and the University Libraries are Fellows of the Institute. Fellows receive assistance with the conduct and funding of various research projects.
Current projects include four multi-volume editions of important literary, musical and political writings as well as shorter-term research, which ranges from editions of medieval English poems and Renaissance historians, through popular editions of America's first professional novelist, to a full-scale bibliography of a major twentieth-century author. Publishers of Institute research include prominent presses both at home (Ohio University Press, Kent State University Press) and abroad (Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press).
The goals of the Institute are to foster basic research in the Humanities and related areas that contribute to our knowledge and understanding of our political, social, and cultural heritage and to explore and lead the way in adapting computer technology to text processing and production. Kent State's IBE is one of the most advanced research centers in the nation in computerizing the editorial process from beginning to end.