About Merritt

Merritt is a digital preservation service that provides the UC community with an easy-to-use tool to manage, archive, and share their content. Merritt provides significant features for valuable digital objects:

• permanent storage
• access via persistent URLs
• tools for long-term management
• easy-to-use interface for deposit and updates
• tools for batch object submission
• API for object submission and content-specific queries

Why use Merritt?

Take control of your content and provide access how and when you want

Merritt enables campus constituencies to have direct control over the management, curation, access, and preservation of the information resources underpinning their scholarly activities.

Provide long-term preservation

The UC community holds valuable and unique collections in their libraries, museums, and archives (e.g. specimens, oral history recordings, or photographs) that they would like to make available online and preserve for future use. Merritt provides a trustworthy and dependable environment for the long-term management of these valuable materials.

Meet the preservation requirements of a grant-funded project

Grant funding agencies may provide a digital preservation line item to facilitate preserving a resulting collection for a desired period of time. Merritt supports use of non-government grants to do so by working with the campus and funder to ensure accurate estimation and payment for storage costs are managed for the collection lifecycle.