2. The Value of British Periodicals
• Many landmark texts were originally presented to the
reading public in serial form in the periodicals
contained in Collection I and Collection II, such as
– De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
– Carlyle's Sartor Resartus
– Cobbett's Rural Rides
– Bagehot's The English Constitution
– Gaskell's North and South
• Continuing in the tradition of Periodicals Archive Online
and American Periodicals Series, the two British
Periodicals collections offer researchers and students
alike a new way of restoring the original contexts of
such works, and understanding life and thought in the
eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
3. Making research easier
Boime, Albert, “William Holman Hunt‟s
“The Scapegoat”: Rite of
Forgiveness/Transference of Blame, The
Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, No. 1. (Mar., 2002),
pp. 94-114.
4. BATOR, PAUL G., The Unpublished Rhetoric Lectures of
Robert Watson, Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and
Metaphysics at the University of St. Andrews, 1756-1778,
Rhetorica, 12:1 (1994:Winter) p.67
5. From a Dissertation
THE SOURCE OF
LABOUR., Chambers's Journal
of Popular Literature, Science
and Arts, 140 (1866:Sept.) p.554
6. Two Full-text Collections Complete
• Collection I - Early British Periodicals
– 160 periodicals dealing with
literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, and social
sciences, published between 1681-1937, based on the UMI
microfilm collection
– Title list available
– 3.1M pages
– Sourced from 100 libraries, for best copy available to
photograph
• most titles available in full or nearly full runs
– Scanned and OCRd full text
• Search and view full page images or individual articles
• Indexing of all content, including articles, illustrations, ads and
other items comprising each periodical issue
• Browse by title and issue
7. Collection II
• English Literary Periodicals
– 340 periodicals published between 1681-1914, over half of
them published after 1790
– 2.2M pages
PLUS
• British Periodicals in the Creative Arts Collection
– 71 titles dealing with music, art, drama, archeology, and
architecture
– Published between the 1770s and the early 1900s
• Both based on UMI microfilm collections
AND
– An additional nine titles listed in the Wellesley Index to
Victorian Periodicals making all of these periodicals available
in full text in British Periodicals
• Title list available
8. Unique Content
• British Periodicals fills a gap in the universe of electronic
research materials
– Overlap with ProQuest‟s Periodicals Archive Online
• 7 titles (Academy and Literature, Bentley's Miscellany, Edinburgh
Review, Longman’s, Macmillan's Magazine, Scottish Review, and
Temple Bar)
– Overlap with JSTOR
• 2 titles (Mind and Jewish Quarterly Review)
– Overlap with Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• 0 titles
– Overlap with Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
• 38 bound titles, including some partial runs, 2nd editions and reprints
– Overlap with Eighteenth Century Journals II by Adam Matthews
• There are 70 titles in this collection, some partial runs.
• Only four titles in British Periodicals Collection I overlap (The
Connoisseur, The Museum: Or, the Literary and Historical Register,
Visions of Sir Heister Ryley, The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligence)
• Another 11 titles would overlap with Collection II
– Overlap with Internet Library of Early Journals at Oxford University
• 2 titles, partial runs - Gentleman's Magazine (1731-1750) and
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1843-1863)
23. What does the academic community think of
our grayscale images in British Periodicals?
“This has a very „authentic‟ feel, I can almost smell the
paper”
Glyn Purseglove, Dept of English, University of Wales, Swansea
“Without the grayscale scans, you are limiting the potential
uses of the resource quite considerably.”
Dr Ian Gadd, School of English, Bath Spa University
“Grayscale is nicer to look at than equivalent-res black and
white, and gives a better "feel" of what you're working
with … The image, frankly, looks nicer in grayscale”
Dr Matthew Steggle, Senior Lecturer in English, Sheffield Hallam University
28. More useful features
• My Archive – personal research space to
save records/searches in between
sessions
• MARC records for each periodical
• Citation software support for exporting
references
• OpenURL & Z39.50 compliancy
29. Integration
• Cross-search with Periodicals Archive Online
– PAO customers can also have all of their British Periodicals titles
included in that interface to maximize use and access
• All nineteenth century British Periodicals bibliographic
records will be indexed in C19: The Nineteenth Century
Index
– cross-searchable with a growing number of other resources
including American Periodicals Series, Periodicals Index Online,
Wellesley, Poole‟s Index, Palmer‟s Index to the Times,
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, House of Commons
Parliamentary Papers and more!
• Cross-search with Wellesley Index
– Enhanced version of British Periodicals is available for those
who have access to the Wellesley Index online via C19 or
standalone (available by November 2006)
30. Integration of full text and scholarly indexes
Include Wellesley
indexing in
searches of British
Periodicals if you
also have Wellesley
Index online
or
