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Great Expectations for Gale's Nineteenth Century Collections Online>>
By Michelle Manafy, eContent Magazine, May 18, 2012
Cengage's plans to digitise the 19th century could open up a whole new world>>
By Matthew Reisz, The Times Higher Education, April 26, 2012
Testimonials
"I've thoroughly enjoyed exploring the material in the first two archives - British Politics and Society and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection. It really is most impressive - very easy to navigate, extraordinarily good definition of hand-written archival material, and including some pretty obscure - and hence invaluable - finds amongst what has been loaded on the two archives. Nineteenth Century Collections Online is clearly destined to become a gold star resource for economic and social historians."
Dr. Brian Robson - Director, Centre for Urban Policy Studies (CUPS), The University of Manchester
"The British Library is delighted to be partnering with Gale Cengage Learning to provide access to some of our rare and unique holdings from the 19th Century via the innovative Nineteenth Century Collections Online platform. NCCO's options for search and navigation through rich content from many libraries and archives opens up some of our vast collections in ways never possible before.
Simon Bell, Head of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing, The British Library
The most ambitious project ever undertaken to digitise primary source collections from the 'long' nineteenth century,
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is set to transform the teaching, learning and research landscape forever. Heralding a new wave of research and discovery into the 19th century,
NCCO is a multi-year publishing programme sourcing collections from across the globe in multiple languages (including non Western languages) richly representing regions including :
- Africa
- Continental Europe
- East & South Asia
- Latin America
- The Middle East
- South Asia
The programme includes a variety of content types including:
- Monographs (books)
- Manuscripts
- Newspapers
- Ephemera
- Photographs
- Statistics
- Maps
Released incrementally beginning in mid-2012, the Nineteenth Century Collections Online publishing programme allows libraries to customize and scale their selections to meet their specific collection needs. Modular, subject -specific 'archives' will explore the themes and movements most requested by scholars and researchers. For example, the first archive, British Politics and Society, focusses on documents that reveal the story of social and political change in Britain. Future archives will focus on the story of science, technology/industry, the arts, empire and more.
Coming in Spring 2012:
British Politics and Society
European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
British Theatre, Music, and the Arts: High and Popular Culture
Read more>>
Nineteenth Century Collection Online's international board of
advisors will guide the selection of materials to be published in this programme.
Content is being sourced from around the world: from national libraries; from
academic and public libraries; and from a variety of special collections,
archives, and repositories. Read more>>
Designed specifically with the researcher in mind, Nineteenth Century
Collections Online is being built on a groundbreaking Research Platform
that offers the robust search functionality and annotation and tagging tools
necessary for scholarly work. Read more>>
With its authoritative content and extensive bibliographic information, and underpinned by technology (including a user driven product design) that fits the needs of today’s researchers, Nineteenth Century Collections Online will transform the nature of research on the nineteenth century.
Please come back often for more information and updates.
Banner images L to R:
Portrait of a Gentleman (Mr. Wilberforce) by John Rising (1753–1817) , 1790, Wilberforce House, Hull Museum,
Cosette by Emile Antoine Bayard (1837-1891), Paris, Musée Victor Hugo
Samurai with bow and arrow by Felice Beato, Kusakabe Kimbei or Raimund baron von Stillfried. Japan, around 1880, Nationaal Archief
All images sourced from Wikimedia Commons
