British Library to digitise old newspapers and place them online – guardian.co.uk

"The British Library is to digitise up to 40m newspaper pages and then make them available online. They will include papers – local, regional and national – dating back to the early 1700s.

The vast majority of the library's 750m pages of newspapers — the largest collection in the world — are currently available only on microfilm or bound in bulky volumes.

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The library said it would focus initially on digitising papers that document historical events in the 19th century, such as the Crimean War, the Boer War and the suffragette movement.

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The cost of the 10-year project – to be carried out by online publisher Brightsolid – is not clear, but Sanderson said the process — from cleaning a single page to making a file of it — costs up to £1."

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