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65 million newspaper articles from 300 years put online
Read all about it 29 November 2011 12:39 GMT TweetThe British Library has gone live with its local and regional newspaper archive, giving surfers access to 4 million web pages of print media from a timespan of more than 300 years.
The British Newspaper Archive (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/),...
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Google checks out 250,000 books from the British Library
Plans to put 40 million pages online 20 June 2011 14:24 GMT TweetThe British Library has announced a deal with Google to get 250,000 out of copyright books available online, through the Google Books platform.
The move means that books, pamphlets and periodicals from 1700-1870 - some 40 million pages - will...
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APP OF THE DAY: British Library 19th Century Historical Collection review (iPad)
19th century classics at your fingerprints 7 June 2011 18:00 GMT TweetWith Feed me Oil, Pocket-lint obviously hit a low spot for our App of The Day series.
We can only apologise for its inclusion, the writer of Monday's effort has a simple mind and is pleased by the most basic applications. He can turn violent...
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APP OF THE DAY - British Library: Treasures (iOS and Android)
Learn stuff with your apps, instead of just killing cartoon pigs 10 January 2011 18:00 GMT TweetApp of the Day fans, how cruelly life has treated you.
Not only was your favourite Pocket-lint feature not present throughout the whole of December, due to the App-vent calendar appearing in its place, it has also had to sit out the first week...
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British Library offers 65,000 ebooks for free
65,000 first editions of 19th Century fiction 8 February 2010 16:27 GMT TweetThe British Library has decided that later in the spring it'll be making 65,000 great works of 19th Century fiction available, absolutely free, in ebook format. The books, which are first editions, will include the original typeface and illustrations...
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British Library puts 19th century newspapers online
Posterity preserved 18 June 2009 9:53 GMT TweetThe British Library has announced that it's placed 2 million digitised and searchable newspapers pages online that date from as far back as 1800.
The service, which isn't free but is available on a pay-as-you-go basis, will let you crawl... -
Europeana - the European online library crashes
Forced closure just hours after opening 24 November 2008 16:02 GMT TweetMore than twice the number of hits than anticipated has crashed Europeana - the new online library - just hours after its launch.
The project offers free online access to content from 1000 of Europe's most prestigious institutions including... -
European online library launches
More than 1000 organisations involved 20 November 2008 12:21 GMT TweetA new multimedia venture has launched bringing content from more than 1000 cultural organisations across Europe together in a free online resource.
The British Library is amongst the institutions that have signed up to the new European online... -
British Library develops web crawling system for preserving webpages
Tool to be available as open source software 26 September 2006 13:50 GMT TweetThe internet is an ever-changing repository of information, where pages disappear as quickly as new ones appear. The British Library is part of a group of institutions working to preserve digital data presented on the internet for future generations and...
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British Library goes wireless
17 November 2004 7:51 GMT TweetThe British Library claims to have built the largest indoor wireless network in the London.
The network, which will cover 11 reading room, the Library auditorium, its café and restaurant as well as the famous indoor Piazza will be available...