The British Library intends to put some of the collection on display soon, and to open the archive to scholars next year.
Mary Jo Dorsey from the National Institute for Newman Studies says: "An important goal of the digital library is to not only preserve and extend the Newman Archive to scholars around the globe, but to build a multidimensional research tool for the humanities.
Thanks to the initiative of H.L. Van Breda, founder of the Husserl Archives, several scholars worked intensively on the manuscripts for several decades.
Mr. Röhmel denied that the archdiocese was seeking to deflect the debate, saying it had even opened its archives to scholars this year.
Some Jewish groups and historians have said Pius did not speak out enough against the Holocaust and have asked the Vatican to open its World War II-era archives to scholars.
The manuscripts of Emily Dickinson have long been scattered across multiple archives, meaning scholars had to knock on numerous doors to see all the handwritten drafts of a poet whose work went almost entirely unpublished in her lifetime.
Gallup routinely deposits its raw data from surveys sponsored by USA Today with the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, which provides access to its archives to scholars at member institutions.
That status, some argue, means that it should be placed in an archive accessible to scholars and ordinary people rather than on the auction block.
The film's British co-star, Carey Mulligan, who plays Gatsby's great love, Daisy Buchanan, described how Luhrmann gave her "six books to read" before sending her to Princeton, which holds the Fitzgerald literary archive, to consult scholars.
"Don't see it!" This is the beginning of a newly discovered HG Wells ghost story, called The Haunted Ceiling, a macabre tale found in an archive that Wells scholars say they have never seen before.
