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Research paper thumbnail of Bloomsbury Digital Resources - Accessibility and Complex Digital Resources

Bloomsbury publishes a suite of digital resources including Drama Online, Bloomsbury Fashion Cent... more Bloomsbury publishes a suite of digital resources including Drama Online, Bloomsbury Fashion Central, Human Kinetics Library and Screen Studies which are remarkable for their diversity of content types. Encyclopedias and book chapters are combined with play texts, image collections, video, audio and interactive tools to form immersive subject-based resources. This range of content types presents challenges for ensuring accessibility compliance beyond those required for standard eBook or journal platforms. I will outline the recent work we have done to ensure our platforms are accessible to all kinds of users, and the challenges we have identified in our future roadmap.

Research paper thumbnail of ProQuest's Early European Books

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Sponsored Article: ProQuest’s <i>Early European Books</i> Project: A Collaborative Approach to the Digitisation of Rare Texts

LIBER Quarterly, 2011

ProQuest's Early European Books (http://eeb.chadwyck.com) is an ambitious project which will buil... more ProQuest's Early European Books (http://eeb.chadwyck.com) is an ambitious project which will build on the success of Early English Books Online (EEBO, http://eebo.chadwyck.com) by providing a single location from which scholars can study the collections of early printed sources held by libraries throughout Europe. EEBO is now established as the first port of call for any researcher studying early modern history or literature, but is of course limited to material printed in the British Isles, or printed elsewhere in the English language, from 1473 to around 1700. To some extent, scholarship and curricula have no doubt been skewed by the widespread availability of EEBO and the lack of equivalent comprehensive sources for printed works of other countries and languages. Early European Books will redress this balance by working with major libraries to digitise their collections of works in all other European languages and from any location in Europe, from the era of Gutenberg, Jenson and Aldus Manutius to the end of the seventeenth century. EEBO has been more than 70 years in the making, beginning with Eugene Power, founder of University Microfilms, filming rare books in the British Museum in the 1930s. This established the Early English Books microfilm series, which has had as its aim the capturing and cataloguing of all titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700). To date, more than 125,000 titles have been

Research paper thumbnail of The African writers series reborn: An electronic edition

Wasafiri, 2005

Matt Kibble In May 2005, the African Writers Series went online. Sixty-six volumes from the origi... more Matt Kibble In May 2005, the African Writers Series went online. Sixty-six volumes from the original Heinemann print series have been digitised and published as the first instalment of a new Chadwyck-Healey collection, the ultimate aim being to bring together the entire contents of the list, from its beginnings in 1962 to the last titles in the series, which were published in 2003. This new online edition means that students and researchers worldwide will now have access to an extraordinarily rich segment of postcolonial publishing history, starting with the founding works of modern African literature, and encompassing more than 300 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama, myths, memoirs and reportage.

Research paper thumbnail of Bloomsbury Digital Resources - Accessibility and Complex Digital Resources

Bloomsbury publishes a suite of digital resources including Drama Online, Bloomsbury Fashion Cent... more Bloomsbury publishes a suite of digital resources including Drama Online, Bloomsbury Fashion Central, Human Kinetics Library and Screen Studies which are remarkable for their diversity of content types. Encyclopedias and book chapters are combined with play texts, image collections, video, audio and interactive tools to form immersive subject-based resources. This range of content types presents challenges for ensuring accessibility compliance beyond those required for standard eBook or journal platforms. I will outline the recent work we have done to ensure our platforms are accessible to all kinds of users, and the challenges we have identified in our future roadmap.

Research paper thumbnail of ProQuest's Early European Books

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Sponsored Article: ProQuest’s <i>Early European Books</i> Project: A Collaborative Approach to the Digitisation of Rare Texts

LIBER Quarterly, 2011

ProQuest's Early European Books (http://eeb.chadwyck.com) is an ambitious project which will buil... more ProQuest's Early European Books (http://eeb.chadwyck.com) is an ambitious project which will build on the success of Early English Books Online (EEBO, http://eebo.chadwyck.com) by providing a single location from which scholars can study the collections of early printed sources held by libraries throughout Europe. EEBO is now established as the first port of call for any researcher studying early modern history or literature, but is of course limited to material printed in the British Isles, or printed elsewhere in the English language, from 1473 to around 1700. To some extent, scholarship and curricula have no doubt been skewed by the widespread availability of EEBO and the lack of equivalent comprehensive sources for printed works of other countries and languages. Early European Books will redress this balance by working with major libraries to digitise their collections of works in all other European languages and from any location in Europe, from the era of Gutenberg, Jenson and Aldus Manutius to the end of the seventeenth century. EEBO has been more than 70 years in the making, beginning with Eugene Power, founder of University Microfilms, filming rare books in the British Museum in the 1930s. This established the Early English Books microfilm series, which has had as its aim the capturing and cataloguing of all titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700). To date, more than 125,000 titles have been

Research paper thumbnail of The African writers series reborn: An electronic edition

Wasafiri, 2005

Matt Kibble In May 2005, the African Writers Series went online. Sixty-six volumes from the origi... more Matt Kibble In May 2005, the African Writers Series went online. Sixty-six volumes from the original Heinemann print series have been digitised and published as the first instalment of a new Chadwyck-Healey collection, the ultimate aim being to bring together the entire contents of the list, from its beginnings in 1962 to the last titles in the series, which were published in 2003. This new online edition means that students and researchers worldwide will now have access to an extraordinarily rich segment of postcolonial publishing history, starting with the founding works of modern African literature, and encompassing more than 300 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama, myths, memoirs and reportage.

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