Tag Archives: newspapers

Free to view pages on the British Newspaper Archive

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The British Library and the British Newspaper Archive are committed to making historical resources available to more and more people, and the introduction of free to view pages marks a significant milestone in this commitment. Following this link, you will find how to access and search through the free to view pages.

Now, with one million pages made free to view today, consisting of 150 titles and spanning the years 1720-1880 more and more people will be able to search the unparalleled resource which is offered by the British Newspaper Archive, in partnership with the British Library.

Over the next three years, we will see a total of 3.7 million free to view pages being added to The Archive, with the aim of shedding light on the diverse content held by the British Library. Learn more.

Jisc Library Hub Discover

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Jisc Library Hub Discover exposes rare and unique research material by bringing together the catalogues of major UK and Irish libraries. In a single search you can discover the holdings of the UK’s National Libraries (including the British Library), many university libraries, and specialist research libraries. This service replaces Copac and SUNCAT.

Library Hub Discover is one of three services built on the Jisc National Bibliographic Knowledgebase, a growing collaboration with an increasing number of libraries contributing to the shared database, to benefit the academic and broader research community as well as local library activity and developments. Learn more.

Svenska dagstidningar

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Svenska dagstidningar offers a collection of around 27 million pages from different swedish newspapers, including but not limited to Aftonbladet, Dagens industri, Dagens nyheter and Expressen. This collection and resouce is maintained by the National Library of Sweden. Due to copyright, only material older than 115 years is acessible online. Learn more

Newspaper Clippings Collection

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Newspaper Clippings Collection is an online newspaper archive provided by the Kobe University Digital Archive. The database includes over 300 000 clips from various newspapers in Japan from 1836 to 1944 originally collected by the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration. The database includes original picture of each article and its text in digitized form. Learn more

Digital Library of the Caribbean

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Digital Library of the Caribbean is a multi-institutional, international digital library focusing on materials about the history and culture of the Caribbean and its surrounding areas. Materials include official documents, journals, newspapers, travel histories, oral histories, maps and artwork as well as historical data. Learn more

ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE

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The ESTC contains catalogue entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. Also included is material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.

The database contains over 480,000 entries, and represents the holdings of some 2,000 libraries world-wide. Learn more

Gallica

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Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National library of France) and its partners. It contains books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, cartoons, drawings, prints, posters, maps, manuscripts, antique coins, scores, theater costumes and sets, audio and video materials. All library materials are freely available. The digital library is in French with some elements also available in English.

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