Date posted: September 14, 2007

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 45.149

Questions?
Program questions should be directed to NEH's Division of Preservation and Access at 202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.gov. Hearing-impaired applicants can contact NEH via TDD at 1-866-372-2930.

Applications should explain the need for the U.S.-England partnership and provide workable solutions to some of the issues of managing and developing transatlantic collections. Thus, activities supported may include:

• proposing methods to rejoin via digitization "split" humanities collections that currently exist on either side of the Atlantic;
• developing a detailed plan for the digitization of humanities collections that could benefit U.S.-England research and performing a limited pilot digitization program to test infrastructure and procedures;
• connecting existing split digitized collections, detailing suitable transatlantic standards and communication strategies;
• creating a virtual archive or resource that would serve as middleware to join complementary materials (analog or digital) in the U.S. and England;
• articulating how collaboration between U.S. and English digitization efforts might function, including but not limited to developing selection criteria, identifying the physical nature of the collection and its effect on digitization workflow, undertaking test data capture, identifying suitable standards for international collections, and indicating how collections could be exploited in U.S.- England research; and
• comparing the needs of researchers in both the U.S. and England and their uses of digitized primary resources.

JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants may not be used for:

• the digitization of materials that are the responsibility of an agency of the U.S. federal government;
• the digitization of materials that will not be made regularly accessible for research, education, or public programming;
• the retrospective conversion of a library's general card catalog or the basic inventory of a museum's collections;
• the creation of software or the purchase of computer systems for records management;
• the maintenance or upgrading of computer systems;
• the acquisition of collections; or
• teaching and learning resources, tools, and reference works designed exclusively for classroom instruction.

The Endowment currently sponsors one agency-wide program, We the People, and two special initiatives, Rediscovering Afghanistan and the Digital Humanities Initiative. Below is information on each. The NEH encourages applications in these three special areas of interest.

We the People Grant Program

Rediscovering Afghanistan

Digital Humanities Initiative

Awards range from $100,000 to $240,000 (approximately £50,000 to £120,000) for a one-year period. A representative institution from each country will receive the appropriate portion of their funding from the appropriate country's funding agency (NEH in the U.S.; JISC in England). Any difference in funding requests from the funding agencies should not vary by an amount greater than 20% (see Budget, below, for more information). Projects should include a project director and institutional affiliation from each country, so that funds may be distributed according to respective national laws and guidelines. Successful applicants to NEH will be awarded a grant in outright funds or federal matching funds, depending on the applicant's preference and the availability of NEH funds.

Cost sharing
Cost sharing is not required. NEH, however, is rarely able to support the full costs of projects approved for funding. In most cases, NEH grants cover no more than 50-60% of project costs.

(Learn more about different types of grant funding.)

Applications must be submitted to both NEH and JISC. Applications sent to only one agency will not be considered for review. See "How to Submit Your Application" for instructions on submitting to each granting agency.

Ineligible applications will not be reviewed.

NEH generally does not award grants to other federal entities or to applicants whose projects are so closely intertwined with a federal entity that the project takes on characteristics of the federal entity's own authorized activities. This does not preclude applicants from using grant funds from, or sites and materials controlled by, other federal entities in their projects.

You will submit your single application to two funding agencies. Co-applicants should collaborate in order to create this single application package. The application materials should be exactly the same in each copy submitted to both NEH and JISC, with the following exception: Applications submitted to NEH through Grants.gov should list a primary Project Director affiliated with a U.S.-based institution; applications submitted to JISC via email in PDF format should list a primary Project Director affiliated with an English institution.

The application should consist of the following parts:

1. Description of the project and its significance
   Provide a one-page abstract written for a non-specialist audience, clearly explaining the project's importance to the humanities, its principal activities, and its expected results.
2. Table of contents
   List all parts of the application and, beginning with the narrative, number all pages consecutively.
3. Narrative
   Limit the narrative to 12-15 single-sided and single-spaced pages. All pages should have one-inch (2.54 centimeters) margins and the font size should be no smaller than eleven point. Use appendices to provide supplementary material.

   The application should consist of the following sections. The application will be reviewed according to the criteria listed in Section VI: Application Review.

   • Significance
     Justify the importance of the project on the basis of its long-term benefits to research, education, or public programming in the humanities. For projects involving humanities collections, describe the nature, size, and intellectual content of the collections and discuss their relation to similar resources. Provide information about their current and past use or potential future use, their present level of intellectual description, the physical condition of the materials, and their storage conditions. Explain how your project relates to existing resources, discuss what this project will provide that they cannot, and define the probable audiences.
   • History, scope, and duration
     Provide a concise history of the project, including information about preliminary research or planning, financial support already received, and resources or research facilities available. If a project extends beyond the scope of funding requested, briefly describe the scope and duration of the entire project, but show clearly the specific accomplishments or products intended for the grant period for which funding is requested. For longer-term or digital projects, describe plans to sustain the project at the end of the grant period. Explain how the project intends to broaden its base of support to allow updates and maintenance without additional NEH or JISC grants. If the project has been previously supported by NEH or JISC, compare the accomplishments in the current or past grant period with the intended goals. List any products or publications in print or electronic form. When appropriate, indicate print runs, sales, and royalties relating to publications. In the case of existing online projects, include the URL and provide use statistics and other relevant information.
   • Methodology and standards
     Project activities should conform to appropriate standards and accepted professional practices. If your project's methodology departs from usual standards and procedures, explain why the project's goals require this approach and how the results would be compatible with other relevant resources that follow existing standards. All applications should include sample materials or reports that show the final or anticipated form of the project and/or illustrate the experience of the project's staff in doing comparable work. Include an outline of the risks that could pose a threat to the project’s success, including their likelihood and severity, and explain how you would prevent or manage them if they occurred. Discuss any intellectual property or privacy issues that might affect the availability of the materials and whether permissions and informed consents have been obtained. Describe standards and best practices that will be followed to ensure longevity of digital products and their interoperability with other resources and related materials. Describe the hardware and software to be employed and provide specific information about the following:
     • Preparation and processing of material
       Describe how the material will be prepared for processing and how it will be processed, e.g., digital capture, keyboarding, optical character recognition, or conversion from another electronic format. Discuss the methods for formatting the material and ensuring quality control. Where appropriate, indicate the levels of resolution, compression, image enhancement, and accuracy of textual conversion or transcription required to achieve the project's goals. For text with markup, justify the choice of tagging scheme and the level of the markup.
     • Organization of and access to material
       Explain the organization of the digitized material or database, including file structure, system capabilities, user access, and documentation. When appropriate, indicate the metadata scheme(s) that will be used to describe the materials (e.g., MARC, Dublin Core, EAD, METS), and explain the rationale for the choice(s). Provide information about metadata creation and controlled vocabularies (if applicable), and use an appendix to display sample data entry sheets, records, and screen displays. When appropriate, discuss the compatibility of the proposed technical framework with the practices of the user community. Discuss provisions for ensuring that your resource can be discovered by a search engine or become part of an aggregated resource such as a digital library, cooperative portal, or clearinghouse, or become integrated with other related resources.
     • Storage, maintenance, and protection of data
       Describe the institution's plans for storing, maintaining, and protecting the data, and, where applicable, for the preservation or other disposition of the original source material. Discuss both the technical and the administrative provisions for ensuring the preservation of long-term access to the information. Explain how the data will be archived (independent of the processing or delivery software and interface) to migrate them to future media and formats. Document the institution's capability and commitment to update and provide long-term access to the materials.
     Applicants may find it useful to consult A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (38-page PDF), which contains links to other useful resources and is supported by the National Information Standards Organization, as well as the JISC Information Environment Standards, and the MINERVA Digitisation Guidelines.
   • Work Plan
     Describe the work plan in detail, including the work to be done by each partner in the collaboration. A schedule indicating benchmarks of accomplishment during each stage of the project should be included in the appendices.
   • Nature of Collaboration and Staff
     Describe the nature and strengths of the intended collaboration and the methods planned to ensure the partnership coordination. Identify the project's staff, including consultants, and describe their duties and qualifications for the specific responsibilities assigned to them. Indicate the amount of time that the principal members of the project's staff will devote to the project. If the project has an advisory board, explain its function. Provide two-page résumés for major project staff and all consultants in the appendices.
   • Dissemination
     Explain how the results of the project will be disseminated and why these means are appropriate to the subject matter and intended audience. Grantees should provide broad access to all grant products through the Internet, on-site use, interlibrary loan, or duplication of materials at costs, insofar as the conditions of the materials and intellectual property rights allow. We strongly encourage projects that offer free public access to online resources. All other considerations being equal, preference will be given to projects that provide free, online access to digital materials produced with grant funds.
4. History of awards
   If the project has received previous support from any federal or nonfederal sources, including NEH or JISC, list on one page the sources, dates, and amounts of these funds. If the project has a long history of support, the sources and contributions may be grouped and summarized.
5. Consultants and advisory board members
   List consultants to the project, members of the project's advisory board (if there is one), and authors of letters of support (if provided).
6. Budget
   U.S. partners must prepare a budget detailing costs and the requested amount from NEH, using the NEH budget form (14-page PDF). English partners must prepare a budget detailing costs and the requested amount from JISC, including staff costs, outsourcing, travel and subsistence (if applicable), equipment and consumables, dissemination, evaluation, and other itemized costs. The combined total amount requested must fall within the limits stated in the Award Information section above.

   Applicants must ensure that cost requests from the funding agencies differ no more than 20% in total request per agency in order to maintain as closely as possible an equitable distribution of funds. For example: an English institution could request $110,000 (approximately £55,000), and the U.S. institution could request $100,000. However, a request of $120,000 and $75,000 respectively would not be allowed (the application would be reviewed, but the final budget of the project, if funded, would be revised accordingly).

   The following applies to U.S. Partners only:

   For any outsourced work, third-party contractor costs should be included in the budget category "Services." Attach a complete itemization of these costs to the budget form. If there is more than one contractor, each one must be listed on the budget form and the costs itemized separately.

   To the maximum extent practical, all procurement contracts must be made through an open and free competition. Awards shall be made to the bidder or offeror whose bid or offer is responsive to the solicitation and is most advantageous to the recipient, considering price, quality, and other factors. Applicants must justify procurement contracts in excess of $100,000 that are not awarded by competitive bids or offers.

   Permanent equipment may be purchased for a project if an analysis demonstrates that it is the most economical and practical alternative to leasing. Permanent equipment is defined as nonexpendable personal property costing $5,000 or more and having a useful life of more than one year.

   Consistent with the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-c and Public Law 105-277), grantees and subrecipients who purchase equipment and products with grant funds should purchase only American-made equipment and products.

   The following applies to English Partners only:

   With effect from 1st August 2006 the Funding Councils have agreed that JISC should adhere to the principles of full economic costs (fEC) for all new projects funded in HEIs. Any proposal from English Higher Education institutions (HEIs) should therefore be constructed on a full economic cost (fEC) basis using the Transparent Approach to Costing (TRAC). The bid should indicate the contribution of fEC being sought from JISC and the contribution that the lead institution and any project partners intend to contribute.

   As part of considering proposals, we will take into consideration the reasonableness of the fEC calculations for the project. It is important to us that HEIs are costing proposals accurately and seeking the appropriate level of support from us, so that they are not over-committed, and hence are ensuring the long-term availability of their activities. However, we also need to ensure consistency of treatment, and that we are using our funding effectively, across all proposals.

7. Appendices
   Use appendices to provide:
   • work plan,
   • sample materials and reports,
   • brief résumés (no longer than two pages) for staff with major responsibilities for the project's implementation and for consultants to the project,
   • job descriptions for any additional staff who will be hired specifically to work on the project,
   • letters of commitment from outside participants and cooperating institutions, and
   • letters of support (preferably no more than three) from experts in the project's subject area, the proposed methodology, or the technical plan (authors of letters of support will not participate in the review process).

If your organization has already registered, you may skip this step. If not, please see our handy checklist to guide you through the registration process. We recommend you complete your registration at least two weeks before the application deadline, as it takes time for your registration to be processed. If you have problems registering with Grants.gov, call the Grants.gov help desk at 1-800-518-4726.

• PureEdge for PC;
• PureEdge for Mac (Intel processor); or
• PureEdge for Mac (PPC processor).

Once installed, this software will allow you to view and fill out Grants.gov application packages for any federal agency. If you have a problem installing PureEdge Viewer, it may be because you do not have permission to install a new program on your computer. Many organizations have rules about installing new programs. If you encounter a problem, contact your system administrator.

DOWNLOAD APPLICATION PACKAGE

Save the application package to your computer's hard drive. To open the application package, select the file and double click. You do not have to be online to work on it.

You can save your application package at any time by clicking the "Save" button at the top of your screen. Tip: If you choose to save your application package before you have completed it, you may receive an error message indicating that your application is not valid if all of the forms have not been completed. Click "OK" to save your work and complete the package another time. You can also use e-mail to share the application package with members of your organization or project team.

The application package contains three forms that you must complete in order to submit your application:

1. Application for Federal Domestic Assistance - Short Organizational (SF-424 Short) — this form asks for basic information about the project, the project director, and the institution.
2. Supplementary Cover Sheet for NEH Grant Programs — this form asks for additional information about the project director, the institution, and the budget.
3. NEH Attachment Form — this form allows you to attach your narrative, budget, and the other parts of your application.

HOW TO FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FOR FEDERAL DOMESTIC ASSISTANCE SF-424 SHORT FORM

Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the following information:

1. Name of Federal Agency: This will be filled in automatically with "National Endowment for the Humanities."
2. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: This will be filled in automatically with the CFDA number and title of the NEH program to which you are applying.
3. Date Received: Please leave blank.
4. Funding Opportunity Number: This will be filled in automatically.
5. Applicant Information: In this section, please supply the name, address, employer/taxpayer identification number (EIN/TIN), DUNS number, Web site address, and congressional district of the institution. Also choose the "type" that best describes your institution (you only need to select one).

   If your institution is located, for example, in the 5th Congressional District of your state, put a "5." If your institution doesn't have a congressional district (e.g. it is in a state or U.S. territory that doesn't have districts or is in a foreign country), put a "0" (zero).

   All institutions applying to federal grant programs are required to provide a DUNS number, issued by Dun & Bradstreet, as part of their application. Project directors should contact their institution’s grant administrator or chief financial officer to obtain their institution’s DUNS number. Federal grant applicants can obtain a DUNS number free of charge by calling 1-866-705-5711. (Learn more about the requirement.

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6. Project Information: Provide the title of your project. Your title should be brief, descriptive, and substantive. It should also be informative to a non-specialist audience. Provide a brief description of your project. The description should be written for a non-specialist audience and clearly state the importance of the proposed work and its relation to larger issues in the humanities. List the starting and ending dates for your project.
7. Project Director: Provide the Social Security Number, name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax numbers for the project director. Disclosure of Social Security Numbers is optional. NEH uses them for internal application processing only.
8. Primary Contact/Grants Administrator: Provide the contact information for the official responsible for the administration of the grant (e.g., negotiating the project budget and ensuring compliance with the terms and conditions of the award). This person is often a grants or research officer, or a sponsored programs official. Normally, the Institutional Grants Administrator is not the same person as the Project Director. If the project director and the grant administrator are the same person, skip to item 9.
9. Authorized Representative: Provide the contact information for the Authorized Organization Representative (AOR) who is submitting the application on behalf of the institution. This person, often called an "Authorizing Official," is typically the president, vice president, executive director, provost, or chancellor. In order to become an AOR, the person must be designated by the institution's E-Business Point of Contact. For more information, please consult the Grants.gov user guide, which is available at: http://www.grants.gov/CustomerSupport.

HOW TO FILL OUT THE SUPPLEMENTARY COVER SHEET FOR NEH GRANT PROGRAMS

Select the form from the menu and double click to open it. Please provide the following information:

1. Project Director: Use the pull down menu to select the major field of study for the project director.
2. Institution Information: Use the pull down menu to select your type of institution.
3. Project Funding: Enter your project funding information. Note that applicants for Challenge Grants should use the right column only; applicants to all other programs should use the left column only.
4. Application Information: Indicate whether the applications will be submitted to other NEH grant programs, government agencies, or private entities for funding. If so, please indicate where and when. NEH frequently cosponsors projects with other funding sources. Providing this information will not prejudice the review of your application.

   For Type of Application, check "new" if the application requests a new period of funding, whether for a new project or the next phase of a project previously funded by NEH. Check "supplement" if the application requests additional funding for a current NEH grant. If requesting a supplement, provide the current grant number (applicants should discuss their request with a NEH program officer before submitting such an application).

   For Project Field Code, use the pull down menu to select the humanities field of the project. If the project is multidisciplinary, choose the field that corresponds to the project's predominant discipline.

HOW TO USE THE NEH ATTACHMENT FORM

You will use this form to attach the various files that make up your application.

Your attachments must be in Portable Document Format (.pdf). We cannot accept attachments in their original word processing or spreadsheet formats. If you don't already have software to convert your files into PDFs, there are many low-cost and free software packages available. To learn more, go to http://www.neh.gov/grants/grantsgov/pdf.html.

When you open the NEH Attachment Form, you will find 15 attachment buttons, labeled "Attachment 1" through "Attachment 15." By clicking on a button, you will be able to choose the file from your computer that you wish to attach. You must name and attach your files in the proper order so that we can identify them. Please attach the proper file to the proper button as listed below:

ATTACHMENT 1: To this button, please attach your description of the project and its significance. Please name the file "projectdescription.pdf".

ATTACHMENT 2: To this button, please attach your table of contents. Please name the file "contents.pdf".

ATTACHMENT 3: To this button, please attach your narrative. Please name the file "narrative.pdf".

ATTACHMENT 4: To this button, please attach your history of grants. Please name the file "granthistory.pdf".

ATTACHMENT 5: To this button, please attach your list of project consultants and advisory board members. Please name the file "consultants.pdf".

ATTACHMENT 6: To this button, please attach your NEHbudget. Please name the file
"NEH budget.pdf".

ATTACHMENT 7: To this button, please attach your JISCbudget. Please name the file
"JISC budget.pdf".

ATTACHMENT 8: To this button, please attach your appendices. Please name the file "appendices.pdf".

Use the remaining buttons to attach any additional materials (if appropriate). Please give these attachments meaningful file names and ensure that they are PDFs.

UPLOADING YOUR APPLICATION TO GRANTS.GOV

When you have completed all three forms, use the right-facing arrow to move each of them to the "Mandatory Documents for Submission" column. Once they have been moved over, the "Submit" button will activate. You are now ready to upload your application package to Grants.gov.

During the registration process, your institution designated one or more AORs (Authorized Organization Representatives). These AORs typically work in your institution's Sponsored Research Office or Grants Office. When you have completed your application, you must ask your AOR to submit the application, using the special username and password that was assigned to him or her during the registration process.

To submit your application, your computer must have an active connection to the Internet. To begin the submission process, click the "submit" button. A page will appear asking you to sign and submit your application. At this point, your AOR will enter his or her username and password. When you click the "sign and submit application" button, your application package will be uploaded to Grants.gov. Please note that it may take some time to upload your application package depending on the size of your files and the speed of your Internet connection.

After the upload is complete, a confirmation page, which includes a tracking number, will appear indicating that you have submitted your application to Grants.gov. Please print this page for your records. The AOR will also receive a confirmation e-mail.

NEH suggests that you submit your application no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the day of the deadline. That way, should you encounter a technical problem of some kind, you will still have time to contact the Grants.gov help desk for support. The Grants.gov help desk is open Monday to Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time at 1-800-518-4726. You can also send an e-mail to support@grants.gov.

HOW TO SUBMIT SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS

If you are sending supplementary materials that cannot be scanned and converted to an electronic form and submitted via Grants.gov, please mail 8 copies of each item and a list of these supplementary materials with an indication that they are being sent separately to the following address:

JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
Division of Preservation and Access
Room 411
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506

NEH continues to experience lengthy delays in the delivery of mail by the U.S. Postal Service, and in some cases materials are damaged by the irradiation process. We recommend that supplementary materials be sent by a commercial delivery service to ensure that they arrive intact by the receipt deadline.

DEADLINES

Applications must be received by Grants.gov by November 29, 2007. Grants.gov will date/time stamp your application after it is fully uploaded. Applications submitted after that date will not be accepted. Supplementary materials must also arrive at NEH by November 29, 2007, to be considered as part of the application.

HOW TO SUBMIT A COPY OF YOUR APPLICATION TO JISC

The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is November 29, 2007. Late proposals will NOT be accepted.

An electronic copy of the proposal should be sent in PDF format by this deadline to JISC-NEH-BIDS@jisc.ac.uk. This is an electronic-only submission process, therefore all documentation (including letters of support) must be submitted in PDF format. Proposals and all supporting documentation must be sent in one file or in a zipped folder. The subject line of the email should contain the name of the lead partner only (e.g., 'institution/organisation name'). Bidders will receive an automatic confirmation of receipt of proposals sent to the above email address. This email address should not be used for general enquiries.

If no automatic confirmation is received, it is the responsibility of the bidder to contact the JISC within one day of submitting the bid to confirm whether the proposal has been received. If you do not receive an automatic confirmation, please contact Avalon McAllister on 0117 931 7124. In case of any dispute about the submission of proposals, it is the responsibility of the bidder to provide evidence that the proposal was emailed to the above address prior to the deadline.

Proposals will be peer reviewed and marked against the Evaluation Criteria under Section VI of this document.

Evaluators are asked to apply the following criteria in assessing applications:

Late applications will not be reviewed.

Review and selection process
For this special competition, applicants will submit a duplicate application copy to both NEH and JISC. A panel of peer reviewers will be selected jointly by NEH and JISC. Reviewers will read each application and advise NEH and JISC about the application's merits. NEH and JISC staff comment on matters of fact or on significant issues that otherwise would be missing from these reviews. The funding agencies will collaborate on a set of final recommend projects to be funded jointly, according to the mutual decisions of the NEH chairman, who by law makes all NEH funding decisions, and the JISC Executive Committee. The JISC Executive and NEH will notify applicants whether proposals have been funded in March 2008.

The information below is for the U.S. partner in the project. English partners are encouraged to review the JISC guidelines for award administration information specific to institutions in England.

Award notices
Applicants will be notified by mail in March 2008 of the decision. Institutional grants administrators and project directors of successful applications will also receive at that time award documents by mail. Applicants may obtain the reasons for funding decisions on their applications by sending a letter or e-mail to NEH, Division of Preservation and Access, Room 411, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506 or preservation@neh.gov.

Administrative requirements
Before submitting an application, applicants should review their responsibilities as an award recipient and the lobbying certification requirement.

Award conditions
The requirements for awards are contained in the General Terms and Conditions for Awards to Organizations, any specific terms and conditions contained in the award document, and the applicable OMB circulars governing federal grants management.

Reporting Requirements
A schedule of report due dates will be included with the award document.
Final performance reports will be required. Further details can be found in Performance Reporting Requirements (formerly Enclosure 2).

A Federal Cash Transactions Report (2-page PDF) will be due within 30 days after the end of each calendar quarter. A final Financial Status Report (2-page PDF) will be due within 90 days after the completion date of the award period. Further details can be found in Financial Reporting Requirements (formerly Enclosure 1).

If you have questions about the program, contact:

NEH Contact for U.S. Partners
JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants
Division of Preservation and Access
Room 411
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20506
202-606-8570

If you need help using Grants.gov, contact:
Grants.gov: http://www.grants.gov
Grants.gov help desk: support@grants.gov
Grants.gov customer support tutorials and manuals: http://www.grants.gov/CustomerSupport
Grant.gov support line: 1-800-518-GRANTS (4726)

JISC Contact for English Partners
Enquiries relating to content of bids should be directed to:
Alastair Dunning
a.dunning@jisc.ac.uk
020 3006 6065

General enquiries about the bid submission process should be directed to:
Avalon McAllister
a.mcallister@jisc.ac.uk
0117 931 7252

This information is for the U.S. partner in the project. English partners are encouraged to review the JISC guidelines for other information specific to institutions in England.

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Application Completion Time

Please send any comments regarding the estimated completion time or any other aspect of this application, including suggestions for reducing the completion time, to the Office of Publications, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C. 20506; and to the Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction Project (3136-0134), Washington, D.C. 20503. According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a valid OMB number.