Longitude archive opened to world
21 July 2013
The full story of attempts to solve 'the longitude problem' are being made freely available to everyone via Cambridge University's Digital Library
Tim Gillett picks five hot riffs on UX
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Budget cuts mean uncertain future for Europeana
15 July 2013
This Tuesday Europeana will meet with the European Commission to make its case for continued funding. Sian Harris finds out why
Archive charts birth of modern China
18 July 2011
An online archive of 8,000 rare photographs of Chinese life between 1850 and 1950 has been launched through the Visualising China project
Paper about user feedback in digital libraries wins award
17 May 2011
The winners of the De Gruyter Saur IFLA Research Paper Award 2011 are Erin Thomas, Grace Costantino, Bianca Crowley and Rebecca Morin with their paper entitled 'Heeding the Call: User Feedback Management and the Digital Library'
Wellcome Trust's digitisation programme picks Tessella
12 May 2011
Tessella will provide part of the technology for the Wellcome Trust's large-scale digitisation programme
Digitised resources widen access to hidden treasures
15 February 2011
Friedel Grant looks at some new initiatives that increase access to the treasures of art galleries, libraries and museums around the world
Text-access project expands to Southern and Eastern Europe
24 May 2010
The European IMPACT (Improving Access to Text) project has welcomed 11 new partners from Southern and Eastern Europe
Untangling Europe's digital rights
27 April 2010
Tom Wilkie reports back from the London Book Fair, where rights management was a hot topic for discussion
British Library partners with Amazon on book project
24 February 2010
A deal between the British Library and Amazon will make 65,000 largely out-of-print 19th century titles available on Amazon via print-on-demand or as free downloads on Kindle
Financial history provides modern insight
15 February 2010
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has launched a digital archive of the Financial Times newspaper. Siân Harris found out what newspaper archives offer to researchers
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