Teaching, learning and research solutions provider Cengage Learning, US, has announced the international advisory board for Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a new global digitisation and publishing programme that brings together rare nineteenth century primary source content from around the world.
The archive will include content from the ‘long’ nineteenth century (1789-1914) – monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera, maps and statistics – much of which is being digitised for the first time. The advisory board, which consists of leading international scholars and bibliographers of nineteenth century studies, will help select content for inclusion in the digital archive.
Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has done extensive market research to help inform the selection, curation, and organisation of Nineteenth Century Collections Online to ensure it reflects the needs of nineteenth century scholars and researchers. Overall, Gale has received feedback from more than 800 scholars and academic librarians, targeted for their nineteenth century research activities or their involvement with scholarly nineteenth century associations.
The advisory board for Nineteenth Century Collections Online will work to ensure the programme fulfills the needs of students, professors and researchers, and provides an in-depth, global view of the nineteenth century.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is currently in development with the first modules expected to be available in spring 2012.
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