Digi Posters:5 At-A-Glance Guide To All The Digitisation Projects PDF

The JISC Digitisation Programme
Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research
18th Century British

Official Parliamentary
Publications 1688-1834
Web access to over one million pages of printed texts,
tables, images and colour maps with full text searching
The University of reflects the long-standing commitment by the

Southampton has University of Southampton to make British
digitised a comprehensive Official Publications more accessible.
collection of 18th
Mark Brown – Librarian, University of
Century British Official
Southampton
Parliamentary Publications that include the
Journals of the House of Lords and Commons, For more information on the JISC Digitisation
House of Commons Sessional Papers, Programme, please go to:
Parliamentary Registers, Private Acts and Bills www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
and Local and Personal Acts. This project has
brought together in one corpus the collections Access to resource:
Free access to UK FE/HE Institutions
of printed parliamentary record series held at Lead site:
the University libraries at Southampton and BOPCRIS, University of Southampton

Launch date:
Cambridge and rare printed material from the March 2007
Contact:
British Library. bopcris@soton.ac.uk
Website:
In digitising this historic material for the www.bopcris.ac.uk/18c
academic and scholarly community, the project Image: Luke Hansard (1752-1828), Printer to the British Government
Archival Sound
Recordings
A slice of the world’s rich audio heritage at your fingertips
This ground- For more information on the JISC Digitisation

breaking project will Programme, please go to:
offer users an online www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
fully-searchable
digital library of ‘Sound recordings represent a massively
sound recordings untapped resource in the field of education…’
from one of the Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library
world’s treasure houses of audio heritage.

Access to resource:
Users will be able to integrate some of the Lead site:
British Library Sound Archive
most evocative recordings to transform Launch date:
September 2006
learning, teaching and research. Up to 12,000 Website:
recordings, totalling 3,900 hours of encodings www.bl.uk/sounds
will represent the expansive range and diversity

of the British Library Sound Archive.
British Newspapers
1800–1900
Read all about Britain and the world from the Industrial
Revolution to the Boxer Rebellion
Ten billion words Illustrated Police News. Also famous authors

and two million of the 19th-century period who wrote for
pages are being newspapers, including Dickens and Thackeray.
digitised from
For more information on the JISC Digitisation
complete runs
Programme, please go to:
of 19th-century
www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
local, regional and
national British newspapers.
Access to resource:
Iconic historical events from the Battle of Lead site:
British Library
Waterloo and the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Launch date:
October 2007
opening of the Suez Canal. Read and repurpose Website:
the factual reporting of the Battle of Trafalgar www.bl.uk/collections/

britishnewspapers1800to1900.html
in the Examiner and the gory details of the

Whitechapel murders in the melodramatic
Medical Journals
Backfiles Digitisation
Free access to the best in medical publications – past,
present and future
This project delivers For more information on the JISC Digitisation

over two million pages Programme, please go to:
of text, derived by www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
digitising the complete
backfiles from a ‘The story of medical history in the 19th and
number of historically 20th centuries is told through medical journals’
significant medical Robert Kiley, Wellcome Trust
journals. All digitised

Access to resource:
content is freely Open Access
Lead site:
available through Wellcome Trust (UK) and National Library of
Medicine (USA)
PubMed Central (www.pubmedcentral.gov). Launch date:
Progressive roll-out from April 2005
Not only is the archive available, but also Website:

http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/backfiles/
current and future issues published by Partners:

National Library of Medicine (NLM)
participating publishers will be included.

Newsfilm Online
See and hear the events that shaped the 20th and 21st
centuries, online
Delivery of 60,000 Users will be able to process, search and

segmented encodings, download news clips and some scripts.
totalling some 3,000
hours from the
archives of ITN and
Reuters Television –
including some of the most significant events of
the past century, such as the Crystal Palace fire
Access to resource:
(1936), the first interview with Nelson Mandela Free access to FE/HE Institutions (TBC)
Lead site:
(1961), the battle of Newport Bridge (1975) and British Universities Film & Video Council
the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997). Launch date:

Early 2008
Website:
The project has digitised a broad selection of www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline
newsfilm to deliver access to content of value

across a wide range of academic disciplines.
Online Historical
Population Reports
Putting you in touch with historical population data
600 volumes of Census For more information on the JISC Digitisation

reports representing over Programme, please go to:
200,000 pages and 100 www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
years of population growth
A hundred years of extraordinary population
– from 15.8 million people
in 1801 to more than 40
growth in the British Isles – from around 15.8
million by 1901. million in 1801 to 47 million in 1921.
The project will give users Access to resource:

Open Access
free access to historical Lead site:
Arts and Humanities Data Service History
material that is currently Launch date:
February 2007
widely dispersed in books Website:
and microforms across the UK. Reports relate www.histpop.org
to the demography, economy and sociology of

the British Isles between 1801 and 1937.
Electronic Ephemera:
Digitised Selections from
the John Johnson Collection
Discover hidden treasures of everyday life from the
16th century to the 20th
The John Johnson This innovative joint enterprise… will result in

Collection, one of the most the digitisation of more than 65,000 complete
important collections of
items (well in excess of 150,000 images) from
printed ephemera in the
world. Containing 1.5 million the John Johnson Collection and so provide a
items ranging in date from unique insight into our nation’s past.
1508 to 1939, it spans a
wide range of printing and
Access to resource:
social history. The collection Free access to Public Libraries, Schools, Colleges
and Universities in the UK
contains a high proportion of rare material that Lead site:
University of Oxford
has remained hidden to researchers until now. Launch date:
December 2008
For more information on the JISC Digitisation Website:

www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/eejjc
Programme, please go to: Partners: Bodleian Library (Oxford University

Library Services); ProQuest CSA
First World War

Poetry Digital Archive
Building on the Wilfred Owen archive by digitising
primary source material from five First World War poets
Building on the success for Over the Brazier and Fairies and Fusiliers,
of Oxford’s Wilfred Owen Edward Thomas’s war poems and diary and a
archive, this multimedia selection of verse from women poets.
digital archive contains
images, text, audio
and video of primary
material from a selection of major British poets
of the First World War.
Access to resource:
Open Access
The collection brings together highly valued Lead site:
University of Oxford
material, currently dispersed across the UK and Launch date:
Armistice Day, November 2008
the USA, including the poets Edward Thomas, Website:
Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg and Roland www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit
Leighton. 2,200 digital images and multimedia

objects including drafts of Robert Graves’ poems
British Governance in the

20th Century: Cabinet Papers,
1914–1975
In its own words: the British government at peace and war
Over half a million images For more information on the JISC Digitisation
create an online resource Programme, please go to:
allowing access to the full- www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
text Cabinet papers from
All the core issues that faced the government
1914–1975. These collections
of minutes and memoranda,
of the day are documented in the minutes and
which cover both peace and memoranda of the Cabinet.
wartime, constitute a fascinating record of the
Access to resource:
way in which the British government grappled Free to Schools, Colleges and Universities in the
UK
with events of the 20th century. Lead site:
The National Archive
Launch date:
Users will be able to access and browse March 2009
the online archive, opening up research Website:

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline
opportunities that paper- and microform-based

search aids cannot deliver.
19th-Century
Pamphlets Online
Polemical voices from the past on the great debates of
the 19th century
Some of the most For more information on the JISC Digitisation

significant collections of Programme, please go to:
19th-century pamphlets www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
held in UK research Pamphlets played an important role within the
libraries. 23,000 paper-copy
great debates of the 19th century and are a
pamphlets, which focus on
valuable but underused primary resource.
the political, economic and
social issues that fuelled Access to resource:
Free to Schools, Colleges and Universities in the UK
the great Parliamentary Lead site: University of Southampton
debates and controversies Launch date:

March 2009
of the 19th-century, provide an immensely rich Website:
www.curl.ac.uk/projects/NineteenOnline.htm
and coherent corpus of primary sources with Partners: BOPCRIS/University of Southampton;
University of Bristol; CURL; Durham University;
which to study the socio-political and economic JSTOR; University of Liverpool; LSE; University of
Manchester; MIMAS; University of Newcastle; UCL
landscape of 19th century Britain.
Discovering the Poles: Historic

Polar Images 1845–1960
Making historic Polar exploration resources accessible
to all
The archival collections topics relating to the history of Arctic and

held by the Scott Polar Antarctic exploration and science, providing
Research Institute are access to hidden collections.
among the richest in the
world for the study of
polar environments. The
photographic negatives
recording historic polar
Access to resource:
expeditions are a unique and extremely fragile Open Access
Lead site:
resource. Without this digitisation project the Scott Polar Research Institute
collection ran a very real risk of extinction. Launch date:

March 2009
Website:
The project will develop a repository of freely www.spri.cam.ac.uk
available visual and textual resources to

support learning, teaching and research into
Portsmouth University:
Historic Boundaries
of Britain
Mapping the past: a digital library of Britain’s borders
Administrative For more information on the JISC Digitisation

boundaries provide a Programme, please go to:
framework for many www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
of the activities of the
state, from welfare Not just a resource for university research and
provision via poor law teaching…
unions in the past
to elections held in
Access to resource:
constituencies today. Open Access
Lead site:
University of Portsmouth
This project will create a comprehensive digital Launch date:
March 2009
library of historic administrative boundaries Website:
for Britain through a combination of scanning www.visionofbritain.org.uk

Partners:
historical maps and creating vector boundaries No financial partners, dissemination via EDINA
and AHDS History
for selected geographies.

British Cartoon Archive

Digitisation Project
Digitising the single most important archive of British
newspaper cartoons
This project will digitise current British Cartoon Archive website will
the Carl Giles Archive, also be redeveloped to significantly increase its
the single most important accessibility and usability.
archive of British
newspaper cartoons,
and a key resource for
British political and social
history that has never before been open to the
Access to resource:
public. The collection will become a major part Open Access
Lead site:
of the existing British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent
University of Kent, creating the largest archive Launch date:

March 2009
of cartoons in the UK. Website:

http://library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons/
15,000 cartoon images and 5,000 pages of

related paperwork will be made available. The
Welsh Journals Online

Free online access to key periodicals from Wales –
past, present and future
All academically A crucial feature of this project is that the bulk

significant Welsh of its material is in copyright. However, most
periodicals published
publications in Wales are not produced by
since 1900 are being
digitised by the National large organisations jealous of their intellectual
Library of Wales, to make property rights.
them freely available in
perpetuity to readers in
Access to resource:
all parts of the world. The project will mount Open Access
Lead site:
the first substantial corpus of material in the National Library of Wales
Welsh language online. Launch date:

March 2009
Website: www.welshjournals.llgc.org.uk
For more information on the JISC Digitisation www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/

programme_digitisation/welshjournals.aspx
Programme, please go to: Partners: WHELF (Welsh Higher Education

Libraries Forum), Welsh Assembly Government
A Digital Library of Core

e‑Resources on Ireland
Creating a one-stop shop for Irish Studies e‑resources
The digitisation of 100 key The demand for research materials relating
journals, 205 monographs to Ireland cannot be overestimated, nor can
and 2,500 manuscript pages
the current paucity of material available
from core Irish Studies
collections makes this either online or through UK-based academic
comprehensive, multi- libraries.
disciplinary digital library
the first point of contact
Access to resource: Free to UK and Irish users
for scholars and students seeking convenient, Lead site: The Queen’s University of Belfast
comprehensive and reliable e‑resources Launch date: Full launch February 2009 with a
progressive rollout of e‑resources before this date
relating to Ireland. Website: Not yet available. However, the project

proposal website can be found at:
www.qub.ac.uk/cdda/dlcmi
For more information on the JISC Digitisation Partners: The Linen Hall Library; the Robinson
Library; the Royal Irish Academy; CELT University
Programme, please go to: College Cork; University College Dublin; JSTOR;
AHDS
Archival Sound
Recordings 2
A critical mass of rich audio material from all over the
world, at your fingertips
Building on the images and added-value features to enhance

British Library’s the existing service and transform teaching,
ground-breaking learning and research.
work in creating
the first online fully
searchable digital
library of sound
recordings from one of the world’s treasure
Access to resource:
houses of audio heritage, these nine new digital Free to Schools, Colleges and Universities in the
UK
collections will make available around 4,200 Lead site:
The British Library
hours of audio content. Launch date:
March 2009
The recordings, which range from canonical Website:

www.bl.uk/sounds
classical repertoire to interviews with

Holocaust survivors, will be supported by
Voices: Moving Images

in the Public Sphere
Watch the key social, political and economic issues of
our time unfold
600 hours of and debated through moving-image media

unique moving- forms and will be made available to education,
image materials research and the wider public in the UK.
and digitised
contextual
documents
including
public record
Access to resource: Free to Schools, Colleges
films, parliamentary coverage, national news and Universities in the UK and some Open Access
Lead site: British Film Institute
broadcasts, and campaigning films. Launch date: January 2009
Website: Not yet available
This project will pursue a curated and thematic Partners: The National Archives; the
Parliamentary Recording Unit; the BBC; ITN;
approach, demonstrating how the key social, Open Media; Northern Region Film & Television
Archive; South West Film and Television Archive;
political and economic issues of our time the Media Archive for Central England; and the
East Anglian Film Archive
have been represented, illustrated, expressed

UK Theses Digitisation
Project
Opening access to over 5,000 of the most popular
British research theses
Digitising at least 5,335 For more information on the JISC Digitisation

paper-borne UK theses Programme, please go to:
will ’kick start’ the www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
EThOS service, which
The digitised theses from this project … will
will allow Open Access
to theses in electronic
generate a critical mass to encourage future
form. submission of theses in electronic form.
The project will deliver a Access to resource:

Open Access
fully operational, easily Lead site:
The British Library
scaleable and financially viable prototype of Launch date:
July 2008
a UK e-theses online service that will enable Website: Not yet available
users, via one single web interface, to access Partners: CURL; Cranfield University; University
of Warwick; University of Glasgow; University of
the full text of electronically stored theses after Edinburgh; Robert Gordon University; University
of Birmingham
selection from a database of UK theses.

British Newspapers
1620–1900
Read the first three centuries of newspapers from all
regions of the British Isles
Up to 1.25 million For more information on the JISC Digitisation

pages are being Programme, please go to:
digitised from 18th- www.jisc.ac.uk/digitisation
and 19th-century
The British Library’s approach is based upon
historical British
newspapers held at
the experience and expertise they gained from
the British Library, their previous newspaper digitisation projects.
building on previous projects to enable access
Access to resource:
to a virtual library containing some four million Free to Schools, Colleges and Universities in the
UK
digitised pages of important national, regional Lead site:
The British Library
and local newspapers. Launch date:
March 2009
It will open up to diverse communities the first Website:

www.bl.uk/collections/newspapers.html
three centuries of newspapers throughout the

British Isles.
Digitisation of the
LBC/IRN Archive
From Callaghan to Thatcher, a contemporary audio archive
from the only UK radio news archive outside the BBC
The LBC/IRN radio archive Users will be able to access the recordings via
is the most important a website which combines access to the archive
commercial radio archive catalogue and digital audio files.
in the UK and provides a
unique audio history of
the period. It consists of
7,000 reel-to-reel tapes in
a collection that runs from
Access to resource:
1973 to the mid-1990s. ‘Cost recovery’ subscription to Schools, Colleges
and Universities in the UK
Lead site:
This project focuses on the most noteworthy Bournemouth University
Launch date:
content – 4,000 hours of recordings relating to March 2009
news and current affairs: the Falklands war, Website:

Not yet available
the miners’ strike, Northern Ireland and the Partners:

British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC)
whole of the Thatcher period of government.

Pre-Raphaelite
Resource Site
Trace a movement that changed the face of English art
Birmingham Museums century art. It will be available Open Access to

and Art Gallery all users via the Birmingham Museums and Art
(BM&AG) has a large Gallery website.
and important holding
of Pre-Raphaelite
drawings, which
has never before been comprehensively
documented and accessed as a collection. It
Access to resource:
includes work by the renowned artists Dante Open Access
Lead site:
Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Edward Burne Jones, among others. Launch date:

January 2009
Website:
With the digitisation of these works, this project Not yet available
will create a unique research source for the

study of the Pre-Raphaelites and British 19th-
The East London

Theatre Archive
Putting the spotlight on East End music hall heritage
The East London Theatre The outcome will be a digitised collection full
Archive will create an of rich potential for students and researchers
invaluable database across the country.
of performing arts
resources, from playbills
and programmes to
press cuttings and
photographs.
Access to resource:
Open Access
By creating around Lead site:
University of East London
15,000 digital objects, Launch date: March 2009
taken from East London theatres, the project Website: Not yet available
Partners: V&A Theatre Collections; Arts and
will preserve unique endangered collections Humanities Data Service, London; International
Festival of Theatre; Theatre Royal Stratford East;
and make them accessible to an academic Hoxton Hall; Hackney Empire; Half Moon Young
People’s Theatre; Wilton’s Music Hall
audience.

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The JISC Digitisation Programme

Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching & research

18th Century British

The University of reflects the long-standing commitment by the

the University libraries at Southampton and BOPCRIS, University of Southampton

This ground- For more information on the JISC Digitisation

world’s treasure houses of audio heritage.

recordings, totalling 3,900 hours of encodings www.bl.uk/sounds

will represent the expansive range and diversity

Ten billion words Illustrated Police News. Also famous authors

the factual reporting of the Battle of Trafalgar www.bl.uk/collections/

in the Examiner and the gory details of the

This project delivers For more information on the JISC Digitisation

journals. All digitised

Not only is the archive available, but also Website:

current and future issues published by Partners:

participating publishers will be included.

Delivery of 60,000 Users will be able to process, search and

the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997). Launch date:

The project has digitised a broad selection of www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline

newsfilm to deliver access to content of value

600 volumes of Census For more information on the JISC Digitisation

The project will give users Access to resource:

and microforms across the UK. Reports relate www.histpop.org

to the demography, economy and sociology of

The John Johnson This innovative joint enterprise… will result in

For more information on the JISC Digitisation Website:

Programme, please go to: Partners: Bodleian Library (Oxford University

First World War

Robert Graves, Isaac Rosenberg and Roland www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit

Leighton. 2,200 digital images and multimedia

British Governance in the

the online archive, opening up research Website:

opportunities that paper- and microform-based

Some of the most For more information on the JISC Digitisation

debates and controversies Launch date:

Discovering the Poles: Historic

The archival collections topics relating to the history of Arctic and

collection ran a very real risk of extinction. Launch date:

The project will develop a repository of freely www.spri.cam.ac.uk

available visual and textual resources to

Administrative For more information on the JISC Digitisation

for Britain through a combination of scanning www.visionofbritain.org.uk

for selected geographies.

British Cartoon Archive

University of Kent, creating the largest archive Launch date:

of cartoons in the UK. Website:

15,000 cartoon images and 5,000 pages of

Welsh Journals Online

All academically A crucial feature of this project is that the bulk

Welsh language online. Launch date:

For more information on the JISC Digitisation www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/

Programme, please go to: Partners: WHELF (Welsh Higher Education

A Digital Library of Core

relating to Ireland. Website: Not yet available. However, the project

Building on the images and added-value features to enhance

The recordings, which range from canonical Website:

classical repertoire to interviews with

Voices: Moving Images

600 hours of and debated through moving-image media

have been represented, illustrated, expressed

Digitising at least 5,335 For more information on the JISC Digitisation