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British Library UK DataCite Summer Meeting
No full textLearn about how institutions and projects in the UK and internationally are using DataCite DOIs to enhance discovery and citation of content, along with recent and upcoming changes for DataCite users in the UK, with the recording of our 2020 Summer Meeting. This year’s speakers were:
• Rachael Kotarski, British Library: British Library Research Services update
• Jez Cope, British Library: British Library DataCite member update
• Helena Cousijn & Robin Dasler, DataCite International: Providing Value to Consortia
• Lorna Mitchell, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Persistent Identifiers as Independent Research Organisation (IRO) Infrastructure
• Bosun Obileye, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA): DataCite at IIT
British Library open access policy for staff research outputs
No full textThe Living Knowledge vision of the British Library is to make our intellectual heritage accessible to everyone, for research, inspiration and enjoyment. An important element of this heritage is the research output of staff of the British Library. Therefore, the aim of this policy is to ensure the wider dissemination and long-term preservation of research outputs produced by British Library staff. This will improve discoverability and in turn raise the research profile of the British Library. The introduction of this policy allows the British Library to align with other UK research institutions and funders who have implemented open access policies in recent years
British Library Persistent Identifier Policy
No full textThe purpose of this policy is to outline the approach to the use of identifiers and persistent identifiers (PIDs) in internal and external facing British Library systems, to define a consistent set of requirements for PIDs to use when managing and developing services and to articulate the responsibilities in applying and reviewing these principles
The Annotated Amleth: Belleforest in the British Library
No full textThe account of Amleth in François de Belleforest’s Le Cinquiesme Livre des Histoires Tragiques is a recognized source for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The British Library copy of the Lyon 1576 edition (C.8.a.5) bears various manuscript annotations which reveal an early reader’s approach to Belleforest’s text: one possible author of these annotations is Shakespeare himself
Philip Harris: Accomplished Librarian and Acclaimed Historian of the British Museum Library
No full textAn appreciation of the life and work of the author of A History of the British Museum Library, 1753-1973 (London, 1998)
Confiscated Nazi Books in the British Library
No full textThe British Library possesses eleven or twelve thousand books seized from German libraries and institutions between June 1944, when Anglo-American forces invaded western Europe, and 1947. Nearly half the confiscated books came from a single library, that of the German Army's Kriegsschule (known in the British Library as the Hanover Military Library) and were offered to the British Museum, the institution of which the present British Library was then a part, by Brigadier H. B. Latham on behalf of the Joint Intelligence Committee of the Cabinet and the Minister of Defence in July 1946. The books are largely dispersed throughout the BL collections. This article identifies books in the BL seized at the end of the War and which still bear the signs of ownership of German institutions
British Library Research Report 2017-18
No full textThe Library’s role as an Independent Research Organisation (IRO) is central to our research identity, supporting a thriving research culture and enabling us to lead and partner on high level research. The funding we receive feeds into all aspects of our vision, supporting learning, custodianship, business and international partnerships, and is central to enabling wide access to our collection by diverse audiences. The crucial contribution that research makes to our public engagement - particularly through our major exhibitions and learning programme - is highlighted in this report in a section illuminating the depth of investigation that was essential to producing our recent major exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War.
During the last year we have seen change and development both in the wider research landscape and within the British Library. We were delighted to host the launch event for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in the spring, which marks a significant change in how research excellence is delivered across the UK. At the Library, we have trialled and launched new programmes and opportunities, including two schemes to facilitate periods of in-depth research work by our staff. We highly value the chance to try new modes of research practice and the ability to offer staff a discrete period in which to apply themselves to their area of expertise has been especially gratifying.
This report focusses on the externally-funded research that we have worked on with our partners both nationally and internationally. It includes the voices of our students and fellows, as well as those of our colleagues and partners. We are particularly grateful to the funders who have supported us over the last year to deliver research that strongly supports our role as a leading research library. As well as the formalised outputs and developments of our funded research, we hope to provide some insight into the wider impact of our research, offering examples of our engagement and practice that aim to share new knowledge with the wider research community and the public. We hope that this report will bring to life and celebrate British Library research over the past year
A Hand-list of the Manuscripts in Burmese Collection in the British Library
No full textThis list contains about 1000 manuscripts from Myanmar (Burma) in the British Library originating from the British Museum collections, and contains not only manuscripts in Burmese but also Shan, Mon, and Arakanese. All items are identified and described based upon a physical examination of the manuscripts, and a collation of existing records. All the manuscripts with Egerton, Stowe, Sloane and Add. shelfmarks, and some of those with Or. shelfmarks, are also listed on the British Library’s online catalogue Explore Archives and Manuscripts
The British Library Stefan Zweig Collection: Catalogue of the Literary and Historical Manuscripts
No full textOne of the most significant donations ever made to the British Library, the Stefan Zweig Collection comprises over two hundred remarkable items assembled by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881–1942) and his heirs.
Richly varied in form and content, it offers deep insights into European culture and history over several centuries, as well as into Zweig’s own modes of engagement with that heritage. as such the collection forms a worthy part of the British Library’s internationally preeminent holdings. This illustrated catalogue provides new descriptions of the 87 literary and historical works in the British Library’s Zweig Collection
British Library Research Report 2018-19
No full textWelcome to our third annual Research Report, covering the academic year October 2018 to September 2019. Research is central to the work of the British Library, permeating what we do as an organisation and shaping what we are able to offer to all our users, collaborators and audiences.
Reflecting on last year, I would normally highlight how we provide access to our collections and resources to researchers on site and online. As I write this during a global pandemic, when throughout lockdown researchers and public have been unable to use our physical spaces, it is particularly timely to signal how our own research also underpins growth in the remote discovery, access and use of our digital collections
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