Trial for British Literary Manuscripts Online, 1660-1900 now available
Historians may be interested to learn that Western Libraries is offering trial access to British Literary Manuscripts Online, 1660-1900. The trial runs until Dec. 21, 2009.
Produced by Gale-Cengage, the British Literary Manuscripts Online, 1660-1900 is a digitized collection of manuscripts by British authors from the Restoration through the Victorian era. The database contains over 600,000 pages of poems, plays, novels, diaries, journals, correspondence, and other papers from major library collections. The facsimile reproductions are searchable via detailed descriptive information.
This e-resource trial can be accessed in either of two ways:
1. By performing a keyword search in the shared library catalogue (here) for "British Literary Manuscripts Online" - with or without quotes. Alternatively, the direct catalogue link is here. Please note that a title search will not locate this resource since our access is on a trial basis, and the resource is not fully indexed in the library catalogue.
2. By clicking on "B" under the Databases by Title list on the Western Libraries homepage (http://www.lib.uwo.ca/).
I'm happy to accept any feedback/comments on this resource, to be taken into consideration when the library decides whether or not to purchase, funding permitting.
