Due to NHPRC guidelines, projects for digitizing newspapers will not be eligible for grant funding from CHRAB.
The Commission does not fund projects to undertake the following activities:
- To construct, renovate, furnish, or purchase a building or land
- To purchase manuscripts or other historical records
- To exhibit or conserve archaeological artifacts, museum objects, or works of art
- To undertake historical research apart from the editing of documentary publications
- To undertake an oral history project unrelated to Native Americans
- To catalog, acquire, or preserve books, periodicals, or other library materials
- To acquire, preserve, or describe art objects, sheet music, or other works primarily of value as works of art or entertainment
- To undertake a documentary editing project to publish the papers of someone who has been deceased for fewer than ten years
- To undertake an archival project centered on the papers of an appointed or elected public official who remains in major office, or is politically active, or the majority of whose papers have not yet been accessioned in a repository
- To undertake an arrangement, description, or preservation project in which the pertinent documents are privately owned or deposited in an institution subject to withdrawal upon demand for reasons other than requirements of law
- To undertake arrangement, description, or preservation projects involving Federal government records that are (a) in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), or (b) in the custody of some other Federal agency, or (c) have been deposited in a non-Federal institution without an agreement authorized by NARA. Many Federally funded activities not undertaken by the government itself produce documents that may in law be considered Federal records, including records produced under Federal contracts or grants. (Applicants with projects dealing with Federal records should speak further with the NHPRC staff.)
As part of its funding restrictions, the Commission has deemed ineligible those projects in which:
- A major portion of the processed documents will be kept closed to researchers for more than five years,
- Documents are not accessible to all qualified users on equal terms,
- It is the repository's policy to deny public access, or
- A repository charges fees for making available the materials in its holdings. However, reasonable fees may be charged for copying material or providing special services or facilities not provided to all researchers.
