"By providing digital access, ProQuest has opened up these important collections to a much wider audience, supporting the needs of researchers within multiple disciplines - from history, literature, music, art, architecture and archaeology to popular science, Celtic folklore and religion," said Mary Sauer-Games, Vice President of ProQuest's Chadwyck-Healey publishing. "British Periodicals will offer scholars a new way of studying, accessing, and understanding both the most influential writings and the less well-known materials that create a record of daily life during a tremendously important historical period."
British Periodicals Collection II incorporates rare periodicals from the 17th through the 20th centuries, drawn from the well-known UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts. British Periodicals will be essential to libraries, academic departments and educational institutions with an interest 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 are accessible from a single stand-alone interface, or they can 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.
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