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ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, US, has announced the launch of British Periodicals Collection II, the second phase of its British Periodicals digital collection. When complete, British Periodicals Collection II will consist of more than 300 journals and 3 million pages.

The latest collection incorporates rare periodicals from the 17th through the 20th centuries, drawn from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts. British Periodicals will be essential to libraries, academic departments and institutions interested in documenting the literary habits and social history of Britons from all classes and their influence on the wider world over 250 years.

Both British Periodicals collections I and British Periodicals collections II are accessible from a single stand-alone interface. These can also be accessed via ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online interface, where they are fully cross-searchable with other Periodicals Archive Online content in institutions with access to both resources.

Institutions with access to ProQuest's Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals can cross-search Wellesley indexing with British Periodicals full-text using the stand-alone interface. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals includes more than 90,000 records from 45 key British periodicals; all included in full text within both British Periodicals collections. Indexed by scholars, this source offers information on author attributions for articles that were originally published anonymously or pseudonymously.

All content in these two collections is available in full-page facsimile images with searchable full text. Users can instantly filter results down to article type and download articles in either PDF or TIFF. Each facsimile page is available in both a high resolution bi-tonal version, for ease of on-screen reading, and a high resolution grayscale version, providing scholars with an authentic and detailed record of the printed source.