JISC digitisation programme - from cartoons to polar exploration

Scott Polar Research Institute picture of Ernest Shackleton from the Virtual Shackleton site

Here is full list of the current JISC digitisation projects, with several of them newly announced under a £12m extension to the digitisation programme.

• 18th century parliamentary papers;
• 19th century pamphlets online: Phase 1;
• A digital library of core e-resources on Ireland;
• Archival sound recordings 2;
• British Cartoon Archive digitisation project;
• British Governance in the 20th century: Cabinet papers, 1914-1975;
• British Library 19th century newspapers;
• British Library archival sound recordings project;
• British newspapers 1620-1900;
• Digitising five centuries of UK life;
• Electronic ephemera: Digitised selections from the John Johnson collection;
• First World War poetry digital archive;
• Independent Radio News Archive digitisation;
• Medical journal backfiles;
• Modern Welsh journals online;
• NewsFilm online;
• Online historical population reports;
• Portsmouth University: Historic boundaries of Britain;
• Pre-Raphaelite resource site;
• Scott Polar Research Institute: Discovering the Poles – Historic polar images;
• The East London theatre archive;
• UK theses digitisation project;
• Voices: Moving images in the public sphere.