One million pages of text from 19th century publications went online last night as part of a British Library project to digitise its journals. The British Library Newspapers website, launched in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), contains searchable text from 46 regional newspapers from around the UK, dating back to 1800. The online digital archive will be available free to lecturers and students in higher and further education institutions and to British Library visitors with reader passes, who can access it from the library’s reading rooms in London’s Kings Cross.
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