The Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1 has been purchased by JISC Collections and is available to UK Higher and Further Education institutions and Research Councils. The content is free in perpetuity, but a fee applies for access via the publisher's server.
Institutions now have online access to the full text of 100 titles and 1.2 million pages from periodicals published in the UK between 1800 and 1900. The resource also offers an extensive library of newly captured images.
This resource, subtitled New Readerships: Women's, Children's, Humour and Leisure/Sport, consists of almost 100 academically selected titles and approximately 1.2 million pages. It focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing in the UK between 1800 and 1900.
Titles included cover the spectrum of women's writing, from Hearth and Home to the suffragist The Vote via Women and Josephine Butler's The Dawn, and also chart the rapid rise of children's entertainment and education, with titles including Boys' Own and Little Folks.
The explosion in popular sports and hobbies, from gardening and horse racing to cricket and cycling, is well covered, and there is a broad spread of satirical and comic titles such as Punch, Fun, Judy, and Figaro in London.
This collection presents primary source periodical content allowing full-text searching in addition to an extensive library of newly captured images, including approximately 8,000 in colour.
Academic level
This resource is suitable for learning, teaching, and research at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Subject areas
This resource will appeal to anyone studying this period in history.
Date range
1800-1900
Updates
There are no planned updates for the resource covered by this licence. The publisher plans to add additional series to the complete collection, but subscription to these are not covered by our licence.
Testimonials
"The publication of 19th Century UK Periodicals marks the commencement of a new epoch in historical scholarship. By making available in digital form the texts of ... carefully selected periodicals, and by permitting sophisticated searching of those texts, this breathtaking new resource breaks the conventional bounds of historical scholarship."
– Dr Jon Topham, University of Leeds
Additional content
Our licence only provides access to the first in a series of five that the publisher plans to include in the complete collection
Content selection
Titles are selected by leading scholars in 19th century studies. Their choices reflect the broad scope and thrust of current research and teaching.
Comparable resources
British Periodicals
Complementary resources
By subscribing to 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1, 19th Century British Library Newspapers and The Burney Collection, users can accesss over 300 years of newspaper history and the birth of modern magazine publishing.
The content of this resource is free for higher and further education institutions as a result of a significant investment by JISC. However, institutions need to pay an annual access fee to the publisher if they wish to access the content via the publisher's online platform.
JISC has made a significant investment in licensing the content of this collection. The content is available to all higher and further education institutions free of charge. However, institutions do need to pay an annual hosting fee to the publisher, if they wish to access the content via the publisher's servers, taking advantage of the search interface developed for the 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, Series 1.
Hosting arrangements under this agreement terminates on 31st July 2012.
The annual hosting fees for this period are as follows:
| |
Annual Access Fee per institution |
| JISC band |
Year 1 |
| A |
£325 |
| B |
£295 |
| C |
£260 |
| D |
£230 |
| E |
£195 |
| F – J |
£165 |
Notes
- - prices do not include VAT
- - To find your institution's banding, please see: JISC Banding.
- - For an explanation of JISC Banding, please see the charging explanation.
Full text linking
Not currently available.
Federated searching
Not currently available.
MARC records
MARC records will be available in February 2008. Contact emea.enquiries@cengage.com for details.
Metadata standards
Metadata is derived from MARC records or directly from the newspaper images. Source information such as title, publication date, and frequency are captured and used for search and display.
Search options
There are three search options available:
- – the basic search allows users to search by keyword, date, and subject
- – the advanced search allows users to search by author, title, full text, front matter, main text, back-of-book indexes, publisher, and place of publication
- – the fuzzy search option expands the search to include spelling variations
Post-search options
Documents can be saved, printed and emailed.
Usage statistics
Usage statistics are available and are Counter compliant.
Authentication
The publisher offers several forms of authentication, including ATHENS, IP range, and via the UK Access Management Federation
Personalisation
Not currently available.