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27 May 2008
- 1,500 titles added to the database of downloadable journals
- Available from 1st June
The British Library has responded to customers' growing needs for instant digital access to research material by making 1,500 journals available for immediate download at http://direct.bl.uk. A huge variety of titles will be added on 1st June, ranging from science, medicine and technology through to politics, history, anthropology and literature. Cutting the document delivery time from days to minutes will make a real difference to researchers worldwide.
In recent years the British Library's collection of electronically stored content has grown steadily and the imminent addition of over 1,500 titles from publishers John Wiley & Sons, Taylor & Francis Group and Future Science Group will bring the total to over 7,000.
Barry Smith, the British Library's Senior Marketing Manager, says: "Our users' expectations of information delivery are changing. Making over 1,500 additional journal titles available for download means that our customers can now have instant access to a pool of information that is vaster than ever before."
The British Library is renowned for delivering both popular and hard-to-find research materials for over 40 years, and is one of the world's leading document suppliers. The ingest and storage of content from major publishers in electronic form is a relatively recent development that enables customers to download articles immediately as DRM-enabled Adobe PDF files from the Library's secure servers.
From 1st June over one in three documents from the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents (ETOC)* database will be delivered immediately.