Mission: To provide an online community where writers, artists, editors, and scholars gather to publish and discuss their works.

Background:
Founded in 1990 at Carnegie Mellon University as the English Server, the EServer is a free resource for arts and humanities research. Relocated in 2000 to the English department of Iowa State University, it offers forty-five collections on such topics as art, architecture, design, drama, Internet studies, multimedia, race, rhetoric, and social issues. In addition to written works, EServer publishes hypertext and streaming audio and video recordings and podcasts. Maintained by member volunteers, who include teachers, librarians, writers, medical laboratory technicians, lawyers, secretaries, students, and professors, the site is supported by individual and in-kind gifts.

Outstanding Web Features:
The EServer Web site features a list of the collections, an explanation of how the EServer differs from other databases, information on how to publish on the EServer, membership, and news.