British Universities Film & Video Council

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Europeana Libraries Launch

Europeana5 million digital objects from 19 of Europe’s leading research and university libraries will be added to Europeana, the European digital library, as part of a two-year project funded by the European Commission to create online access to unique materials – manuscripts, films and texts, currently available only to a small number of scholars.

Digital collections range from Spanish Civil War photographs and handwritten letters from philosopher Immanuel Kant to clips from medical science films produced over the past 100 years. The Europeana Libraries project will also add extensive collections from Google Books, theses, dissertations and open-access journal articles to the 15 million items amassed in Europeana to date.

Providers include some of Europe’s most prestigious universities and research institutes, including the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, Trinity College Dublin and Lund University.

For further details on Europeana see also the entry on the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway.

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