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Last week we wrote about how Norway had come up with a way to provide online access to all books in Norwegian, including the most rece...

The use of Web blocks -- usually " for the children " -- is becoming depressingly common these days. So much so, that many ...

One of the great tasks facing humanity today is digitizing the world's books and liberating the huge stores of knowledge they contain....

There's considerable excitement about an announcement from the British Library and Google detailing a wonderful gift to the world: The ...

I thought I had plumbed the depths of the UK newspaper industry's stupidity when it came to digital. The idea that putting up paywalls ...

Yesterday, Computerworld UK carried an interesting report headed “British Library explores research technologies of the future”. Here's ...

In 2007 the British Library (BL) and the JISC funded The Google Generation Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future research (C...

It has been a sad spectacle to see the British Library – without doubt once the greatest library in the world, and hence a powerful force fo...

People are getting excited about the news that William Stukeley's Life of Newton is now available online, apple-falling tales inclusive...

This is a national disgrace : New legal powers to allow the British Library to archive millions of websites are to be fast-tracked by minist...

Oh look, the British Library thinks it has passed a milestone : The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Li...

I knew the British Library was losing its way, but this is ridiculous : The British Library Business & IP Centre at St Pancras, London c...

The largest single online collection of English news media from the 17th and 18th centuries, the Burney Collection, is now available free of...

This kind of naive adulation is beginning to stick in my craw: The British Library is bringing some of the world's rarest books online,...

I've noted before that there's something rotten at the heart of the British Library, which insists on locking down knowledge in Mic...

This interesting report from the British Libary and JISC says that the "Google generation" - those born after 1993 - aren't s...

I've written a lot here and elsewhere about Microsoft's faux-open file format OOXML. I've also noted that there is an unhealt...

How rich is this ? The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the ...

It would have been more appropriate had this come out on April 1st : If you agree that Open XML should be approved as an ISO standard please...

As I feared , the close relationship between the British Library and Microsoft has led the former to start producing online exhibits locked ...