End of Life Information
Last Updated: July 9, 2024
Why is the EAD FACTORy ending?
The EAD FACTORy consisted of a Finding Aid Creation Tool (maintained by Kent State) and a Finding Aid Repository (maintained by OhioLINK.) After investigating alternatives, OhioLINK and Kent State University made the difficult decision to stop supporting the tools in September 2023.
The Finding Aid Creation Tool was taken offline on June 30, 2024.
The Finding Aid Repository became a "static repository" on July 1, 2024.
What is the "static OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository"?
The "static OhioLINK Finding Aid Repository" is a read-only repository that contains finding aids for those institutions that "opted in" to it. OhioLINK is maintaining it as is until June 2029.
No new finding aids or edits to existing finding aids will be made after July 1, 2024
The static repository will be online from July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2029.
What institutions' finding aids are included in the static repository?
Akron Art Museum
Akron-Summit County Public Library Special Collections Division
Archdiocese of Cincinnati Archives
Baldwin Wallace University
Bluffton University
Case Western Reserve University
Cincinnati Art Museum Archives - Mary R Schiff Library
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Cleveland State University
Cuyahoga Community College
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Greene County Public Library
Hiram College
Hudson Library & Historical Society
Hudson Montessori School Repository
Malone University - Everett L Cattell Library
Marietta College Library
Medical Heritage Center (OSU)
National First Ladies Library
Ohio University
Otterbein University Archives
Toledo Museum of Art
University of Akron
University of Cincinnati - Health Sciences Library - Henry R Winkler Center for the History of the Health Professions
Ursuline College Archives
Youngstown State University
