JSL is looking to work in collaboration with publishers to broaden learning opportunities in higher education in the UK through access to more affordable digital archival collections of primary source materials. Digital archival collections can comprise of many forms of digitised materials including, but not limited to, texts, manus, illustrations, photographs, maps, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, ephemera, cartoons and audio-visual materials. Digital archival collections are predominately focused on the arts, humanities and social science studies. Time span from incunabula (pre-1501) to the present.

In 2018, we established a work to support academic libraries with the perpetual purchase of digital archival collections (DAC) for use in research and teaching and d on member feedback we are creating another work opportunity to run in parallel (DAC 2020).