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Frederick May's London Press Dictionary and Advertiser's Handbook (1883-1911)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Frederick May and successors, containing information on newspapers, magazines and periodicals and arranged in alphabetical and sometimes tabular order. Information for each title included price publisher office political and religious leaningFrederick May & Son ; British Library
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The Newspaper Press Directory (1881-1920)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the UK's national thesis service. We estimate the data covers around 98% of all PhDs ever awarded by UK Higher Education institutions, dating back to 1787. Thesis metadata from every PhD-awarding university in...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
thesis, PhD, doctoral, dissertations, higher education, research, UK, theses, EThOS, and student
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British Library Newspaper Title-level List: A list of catalogued newspaper titles held by the British Library
A title-level list of catalogued newspapers held by the British Library.British Library
newspapers, media, periodicals, metadata, datasets, and catalogues
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Other
In the Spotlight Participants Survey
In summer 2018, the LibCrowds project at the British Library ran a survey designed to help us understand who our participants were. The 22 question survey was based on earlier surveys run by the Galaxy Zoo and Art UK Tagger projects, to allow comparison with other crowdsourcing projects. It was...British Library
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Research report
British Library Research Report 2019-20
It will come as no surprise that the impacts of a global pandemic on our research activities are a major theme of this, our fourth, annual Research Report. Regular readers will know that our reports reflect the breadth of research undertaken by our staff, students, fellows and collaborators during the...British Library
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Policy report
British Library Persistent Identifier Policy
The purpose of this policy is to outline the approach to the use of identifiers and persistent identifiers (PIDs) in internal and external facing British Library systems, to define a consistent set of requirements for PIDs to use when managing and developing services and to articulate the responsibilities in applying...British Library
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Digitised Books. c. 1510 - c. 1900. JSONL (OCR derived text + metadata)
The dataset comprises metadata and OCR generated text from 49,455 digitised books published between c. 1510 - c. 1900. The books cover a wide range of subject areas including philosophy, history, poetry and literature. The dataset is in JSON Lines (JSONL) text format.British Library Labs ; British Library
OCR and monographs
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Video
Persistent Identifiers in Cultural Heritage Collections
Persistent Identifiers help make collections available for the long term so they can be discovered, researched and cited. A range of experts describe how PIDs can help manage, research and digitise collections.British Library
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May's British and Irish Press Guide and Advertiser's Handbook & Dictionary etc. (1871-1880)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Frederick May and successors, containing information on newspapers, magazines and periodicals and arranged in alphabetical and sometimes tabular order. Information for each title included price, publisher, office, political and religious leaning.Frederick May & Son ; British Library
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The Newspaper Press Directory (1846-1880)
Newspaper directories produced and published annually in contemporary 19th Britain by advertising agent Charles Mitchell. Newspapers listed primarily listed in alphabetical order of the town the newspaper where the title was published. Information for each title included: features connected with the district such as population and trade; principal towns in...C. Mitchell and Co. ; British Library
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Dataset
19th Century Books - metadata with additional crowdsourced annotations
This dataset contains metadata for resources belonging to the British Library’s digitised printed books (18th-19th century) collection (bl.uk/collection-guides/digitised-printed-books). This metadata has been extracted from British Library catalogue records. The metadata held within our main catalogue is updated regularly. This metadata dataset should be considered a snapshot of this metadata. For...British Library
metadata, zooniverse, and monographs
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19th Century Books - Metadata 05/2021
This dataset contains metadata for a selection of monographs that are identified in the catalogue as being published during the 19th Century. This metadata has been extracted from British Library catalogue records. The metadata held within our main catalogue is updated regularly. This metadata dataset should be considered a snapshot...British Library
metadata and monographs
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Digitised 19th Century Books - Metadata - 01/09/2021
This dataset contains metadata for resources belonging to the British Library’s digitised printed books (18th-19th century) collection (https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/digitised-printed-books). This metadata has been extracted from British Library catalogue records. The metadata held within our main catalogue is updated regularly. This metadata dataset should be considered a snapshot of this metadata. For...British Library ; British Library Labs
Microsoft, JSON, metadata, books, and bibliographic
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Dataset
UK Doctoral Thesis Metadata from EThOS
This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version: https://doi.org/10.23636/j278-4b96 If you require access to an earlier version, please email openaccess@bl.uk, including the dataset title, date, and DOI in your request. The data in this collection comprises the bibliographic metadata for all UK doctoral theses listed in EThOS, the...British Library ; Rosie, Heather
higher education, student, EThOS, research, doctoral, thesis, PhD, UK, dissertations, and theses
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Other
A Guide to Publishing Research
Find out how to choose the right format of publication and select a publisher, including methods of peer review and open access policies.British Library
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Other
A Guide to Sharing Your Research Online
Find out how to share your research publications online, including publishing open access, the benefits of social media, making use of research evaluation and analytics tools, and how to use persistent identifiers. This will improve not just the impact of your research but also your own profile as a researcher.British Library
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A Guide to Research Data Management
Find out how to manage your research data, from organisation and storage to security and sharing.British Library
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Other
A Guide to Copyright and Creative Commons in Research
Learn the basics of copyright and licensing, find out what to consider when publishing your work and how to make use of published materials in your own research.British Library
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Other
A Guide to Open Access
Find out what open access means, how to publish research on an open access basis, and discover the resources and tools that enable free, online access to publications.British Library