 At that time, the collection featured 2,312 unique publications amongst the 50,953 magazines.The process of counting the magazines took approximately 128 days as James and Tory Turk worked their way through 450 crates filled with magazines.In September 2014, with an investor, Hyman formed The Hyman Archive Ltd. in order to obtain an ECL (a form of collective rights management) with copyright holders contained within the collection, and then to digitise and meta-tag the collection, making it available in a commercial offering.