It is currently discussing with the National Library of Medicine the possibility of a joint, global archive of papers.
So, using $600,000 in contributions in 2008, he bought a 50-year archive of papers from the federal appellate courts and placed them online.
His wife burned an archive of papers dating from his time as a Bolshevik emissary in Paris, fearing that the work would brand him a foreign spy.
In 1998 Sotheby's brokered a private sale to Cambridge University of an archive of papers from Sir Isaac Newton and his contemporaries in one of the castle's libraries.
An archive of papers belonging to LS Lowry that was salvaged by a rag-and-bone man has revealed just how cheaply the artist's paintings were being snapped up for in the early 60s.
Once the government admitted the existence of the vast archive of papers, many of which corroborated the claimants' accounts of abuse, it became clear that thousands more from across the former empire had also been stored secretly for decades at a secure government research centre at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire, north of London.
WASHINGTON — When President Obama signed a law on Monday to clear the way for the largest privately held archive of papers relating to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to be donated to Roosevelt's presidential library, it was to be the culmination of a five-year effort to finally make the documents available to the public.
The foundation's resistance marks the latest chapter in a long and uncomfortable history between the Nixon loyalists and the National Archives as it seeks to bring the Nixon library, along with an archive of papers and tapes, into the presidential library system.
Mr. Glenn keeps an office at the school, holds seminars with students and is close to the archive of papers from his careers as an astronaut and, later, a four-term United States senator from Ohio and a candidate in the 1984 Democratic presidential primaries.
But one concern, he says, is that "because it's so much easier for authors to share links rather than PDFs, it might diminish the amount of self-archiving of papers by authors".
