New collections: widening the range of our digital archives
We have recently enhanced and expanded our digital archives collections, increasing content across both the sciences and humanities.
Significant developments include the completion of a number of online portfolios, notably the high-quality reference material of the series and the wide-ranging , which now extends to incorporate and .
Newspaper additions
Our newspaper coverage has also been updated, with access to backfiles of the principal UK broadsheets extended into the 2020s, and the acquisition of . Additionally, with the purchase of the second and final instalment of the , the Library鈥檚 digital reach now stretches back to the beginnings of the newspaper as we know it. This recent release also offers greatly improved image quality on its 2007 predecessor.
Many of our digital thematic clusters have been supplemented. To those centring on the rich and varied archives of major scientific organisations (, , etc) we have now added the Similarly, our extensive collection of popular magazines now incorporates backfiles of and the complete .
Humanitarian collections
We are also pleased to introduce further new collections to support the University鈥檚 longstanding commitment to furthering the U.N.鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goals and our role as a Northern humanitarianism powerhouse, with the acquisition of .
Ongoing collection mapping relating to our position as has informed the purchase of digital versions of primary source material to significantly boost our resources from the . Alongside these, the newly released archive includes a selection of material digitised from the at the Rylands. The presence of our own material in such a collection testifies to the global importance of our physical holdings, whilst the acquisition of the complete online resource further expands the Library鈥檚 complementary digital reserves for researchers.
Find out more
Look out for further information and promotion of a number of these exciting new resources over the coming months. In the meantime, you can explore our collections via and .