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Tuesday, 13th March 2012
Free Access to 65,000 19th Century Books
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Africa S. Hands
From the British Library:
The British Library and JISC Collections have announced the launch of JISC Historic Books, a new website for researchers and students that includes recently digitised editions of more than 65,000 books from the British Library's extensive 19th century collections.
Amounting to more than 25 million pages the resource spans subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature, with the original typeface, illustrations and fold-out pages for each book. Many rare or inaccessible books published between 1789 and 1914 are now digital, discoverable and searchable for the first time, enabling their use by many more scholars than has hitherto been possible.
The British Library and JISC Collections have announced the launch of JISC Historic Books, a new website for researchers and students that includes recently digitised editions of more than 65,000 books from the British Library’s extensive 19th century collections.
Amounting to more than 25 million pages the resource spans subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature, with the original typeface, illustrations and fold-out pages for each book. Many rare or inaccessible books published between 1789 and 1914 are now digital, discoverable and searchable for the first time, enabling their use by many more scholars than has hitherto been possible.
The British Library and JISC Collections have announced the launch of JISC Historic Books, a new website for researchers and students that includes recently digitised editions of more than 65,000 books from the British Library’s extensive 19th century collections.
Amounting to more than 25 million pages the resource spans subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature, with the original typeface, illustrations and fold-out pages for each book. Many rare or inaccessible books published between 1789 and 1914 are now digital, discoverable and searchable for the first time, enabling their use by many more scholars than has hitherto been possible.
The British Library and JISC Collections have announced the launch of JISC Historic Books, a new website for researchers and students that includes recently digitised editions of more than 65,000 books from the British Library’s extensive 19th century collections.
Amounting to more than 25 million pages the resource spans subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature, with the original typeface, illustrations and fold-out pages for each book. Many rare or inaccessible books published between 1789 and 1914 are now digital, discoverable and searchable for the first time, enabling their use by many more scholars than has hitherto been possible.
The British Library and JISC Collections have announced the launch of JISC Historic Books, a new website for researchers and students that includes recently digitised editions of more than 65,000 books from the British Library’s extensive 19th century collections.
Amounting to more than 25 million pages the resource spans subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature, with the original typeface, illustrations and fold-out pages for each book. Many rare or inaccessible books published between 1789 and 1914 are now digital, discoverable and searchable for the first time, enabling their use by many more scholars than has hitherto been possible.
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By Africa S. Hands
Africa S. Hands is an independent librarian with a focus on helping professionals understand and utilise social media and search engines through one-on-one tutorials and small group workshops. Africa tweets (@africahands) on resources of interest to information and higher education professionals. Her LinkedIn profile may be viewed at:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/africahands.
Africa can be reached at africa.hands@freepint.com
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