JISC

British Periodicals Collections I and II

Over 500 British Periodicals – representing over 250 years of content – are now available free of charge to UK colleges, universities and research councils courtesy of a new agreement between JISC Collections and ProQuest

This rich online resource features British journals from the 1680s through the Victorian ‘age of periodicals’ to the 1930s, with six million keyword-searchable pages covering the arts, the built environment, humanities and the social sciences.

A wide array of different types of periodical are represented, from magisterial quarterlies and scholarly and professional organs through to coterie art periodicals, penny weeklies and illustrated family magazines. These are all now accessible as part of JISC Collections’ UK National Academic Archive.  

‘This agreement further demonstrates ProQuest's commitment to education and accelerating the connection between people and meaningful research,’ said Mary Sauer-Games, Vice President, Chadwyck-Healey publishing.

CEO of JISC Collections, Lorraine Estelle, said: ‘Purchasing important archive material such as British Periodicals on behalf our member colleges, universities and research councils is part of our ongoing commitment to widening access to essential digital archive materials.’

Speaking about the resource, Dr Glyn Pursglove, Reader in English at Swansea University, said: ‘I cannot see any reason why any serious university would NOT want to have it. I think the inclusion of the British Periodicals Collection is a very major plus. The more multi-disciplinary the better.’    

Discover the Archive's use within FE and HE
Press release from the Higher Education Academy 

Image: Household words, Charles Dickens, (Apr 1854) p141
Image: A peep into the Cave of Jacobinism - Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, 1:1 Jul 1798 p2
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