US-based Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, has announced the source libraries, collections and plans for the first four modules of Nineteenth Century Collections Online. The initiative is its global digitisation and publishing programme that seeks to bring together rare 19th century primary source content. Currently still in development, the modules will be available this spring.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online is an ongoing publishing programme with content and partner libraries being added continuously. The British Library, the National Archives (US), the National Archives at Kew, UK, the Bodleian Library – University of Oxford, and Castle Corvey in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany have all provided primary source content to be digitised and included in the archive. About 150 collections from these institutions - as well as from many other libraries and archives - will be included in modules this year.
The first modules will include British Politics and Society; Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and Corvey Collection of European Literature: 1790-1840.
According to the company, one of the important elements of Nineteenth Century Collections Online is that most of the content has never before been digitised. Also, a vast portion of the content has never been captured for microfilm or been otherwise made available outside the source institution.
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