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KB e-Depot reaches milestone: 15m items in digitaal repository

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

The KB, national library of the Netherlands, has announced that they’ve archived 15 million digital documents. The e-Depot was started seven years ago with the goal of  securing scientific articles so that information will remain accessible after the original is lost. They also reported that the e-Depot is 15 terabytes in size. press release (Dutch)

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JISC adds 1m new pages to Online Repository

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects

From the announcement: Freely accessible to UK colleges and universities, the latest addition of one million pages takes the total number of pages of 19th century newspapers available online1 to over three million. Alastair Dunning, programme manager at JISC, says: “In a time when print newspapers are under threat, the British Library resource provides a [...]

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