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British Library Welcomes Europe’s National Librarians Support of Open Data Licensing
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From the BL: The British Library welcomes the announcement made by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) to support the open licensing of their data (28 September 2011). This will mean that datasets describing millions of books and texts published in Europe will become increasingly accessible for anyone to re-use for whatever purpose their […]
From Royal Holloway, University of London: Fragile treasures of 16th Century music are now freely available online, thanks to a partnership between Royal Holloway, University of London, the British Library and JISC. The Early Music Online project has digitised more than 300 books of the world’s earliest printed music from holdings at the British Library. […]
Publishers & British Library Agree Framework Licence Agreement For Document Delivery Outside of UK to Non-Commercial Researchers
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From the British Library: The British Library and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) have agreed a framework licence agreement to be entered into directly between individual publishers and the British Library. It governs the supply of copies of articles from the British Library’s Document Supply Service to non-commercial end users […]
Via Dr. David Weinberger’s Joho the Blog: Thanks to the persistence of Javier Ruiz of the British Open Rights Group, you can now read [pdf] the contract between the British Library and Google Books. Google has shrouded its book digitization contracts in non-disclosures wrapped in lead sheathing that is then buried in collapsed portions of […]
From the Times Higher Ed. Supplement: Ms [Maja] Maricevic sees her role as helping the British Library “effectively underpin the UK research infrastructure at the time when we need to optimise all available resources” and forging new alliances with senior university librarians. Among the initiatives she hopes to build on are the Electronic Thesis Online […]
Rare Books: British Library Launches eBook Treasures Series With Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel
Awards, Libraries, Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
|The launch of a major collection of digitized materials (upcoming releases listed below). From a BL News Release (With Multiple Screenshots to Download): The British Library has launched today a ground-breaking “eBook Treasures” series which will allow iPad users to download entire ancient manuscripts. Starting with Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Arundel (1478-1518), users will […]
On June 8th, we pointed out that the British Library had just released a new iPad app that provided access to a small collection of about 1000 free digitized books from the 19th Century. Today, the service expands and formally launches with more than 45,000 titles available. Plans are to expand the collection to more […]
From the British Library: The British Library has announced an ambitious fundraising campaign to acquire the St Cuthbert Gospel for the nation. Created in the 7th century and intimately associated with one of Britain’s foremost saints, the Gospel is the earliest surviving intact European book and one of the world’s most significant books. A manuscript […]
JISC and Other UK Organizations Call For All UK Metadata to Be Openly Accessible
Archives and Special Collections, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, National Libraries, Resources
|From a JISC Announcement: Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful, according to the JISC-funded resource discovery taskforce as it embarks on a new programme of work. If all UK metadata was made openly accessible, the taskforce says, then the resources […]
From the BL (Includes Screenshots and Video): The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library’s collections. Opening up access to one of the greatest collections of books in the world, this demonstrates the Library’s commitment, as stated in its 2020 Vision, to increase access to anyone […]