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This article focuses on the preservation of British library newspapers that have been published during the 19th century. The British Library Newspapers Web site was created in partnership with Gale International, a part of Cengage Learning, with funding provided by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). Free access will be provided to the database within the BL building and to all the Further and Higher Education communities in Great Britain. Fee-based services will be launched for the general public in 2008. The 19th-century British Library Newspapers add to a rich collection of other historical material that is already available from Cengage or has been funded by JISC.

The article evaluates several products including the SpringerLink service from Springer, the Thieme E-Book Library Platform from Thieme Publishing Group, and the ProQuest African American Heritage genealogy service from ProQuest.

The article discusses copyright protections and exemptions undertaken by several countries. It cites Argentina's proposed draft bill extending the terms of copyright protection on photographs fro 20 years to life of the photographer plus 70 years which is being opposed by Argentine pressure group Fundacion Via Lbre. It cites efforts of library bodies to persuade World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to support international copyright exceptions for libraries and archives.

Presents a list of online resources funded by the National Lottery of Great Britain. ARKive; South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts; Moving Here; History of the nationwide lottery of Great Britain.

The article reports on the Weston Library where digitization is at the center of scholarship, research and preservation. The Weston Library is part of the Bodlleian Libraries at the University of Oxford where archivists will discover new ways to preserve digital materials. Lucie Burgess, the Bodleian's associate director for digital libraries, says the digital archivists face challenges daily with respect to the preservation of digital materials such as old floppy disks which are deteriorating.