The Iowa Review Web (TIR-W) began publishing works of electronic literature in 1999, establishing a reputation for a "commitment to new writing, encouraging the investigation of text and hypertext in theory and practice at their deepest levels." The collection contains the 89 works published in its nine volumes.
In summer of 2016, the local files for all of the works in The Iowa Review Web came from Lynne Nugent at the Iowa Review to the Electronic Literature Lab. The files were held in the ELO Repository at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, later moved to the ELO server in 2019.
