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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.

This article focuses on the launch of the three-year plan for the British Library. According to chief executive Lynne Brindley, publishing trends would create a situation where 90 percent of published output would be available in digital format. The British Library would approach the collection of digital resources in the same way as it had maintained the physical national collection over the last several years. The Library collects and provides links to e-materials from a variety of sources to ensure that global research is available to British researchers. Moreover, electronic journals will be used in a pilot to scope and test processes for their legal deposit.