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Previously unpublished recordings of Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) talks from the 1980s have gone online at the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website of the British Library at http://sounds.bl.uk
Featuring talks and debates with top cultural, artistic and political figures of the day, this latest addition the archive offers a chance to explore in detail [...]

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Rare, unpublished and previously unavailable recordings have been launched online thanks to JISC funding for the British Library’s archival sound recordings project.
28,000 recordings covering 2,000 hours of sound are now online at http://sounds.bl.uk as part of JISC’s digitisation programme, which has invested over £22 million in making available a wide range of heritage and
scholarly resources [...]

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Two million online digitised pages of 19th century newspaper, take researchers back to the future.
The British Library, in partnership with JISC and Gale, part of Cengage Learning, has today launched the public version of its 19th century British Library Newspaper website.
Bathing machines, children as young as nine smoking and drinking, Vesta Tilley – London’s very [...]

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The British Library and JISC invite tenders to conduct a three year longitudinal study investigating and assessing the information-seeking behaviour and scholarly outcomes of young and future scholars in the UK.
The broad aim of this research project will be to track researcher behaviour over a three year period to gather evidence to understand how PhD scholars currently in higher [...]

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