Series
2 (2003) compared to Series 1 (1997)
Series
2 includes all 25,000 of the Series 1 (1997) entries, most of
them now updated, and an additional 25,000 entries, for a
total of 50,000. It
has 4,000 more facsimile title pages for a total of 9,000, and
includes 48,000 personal names. For instance, every name in
the DNB and Modern
English Biography which is associated with a Victorian
periodical appears here.
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Library
locations are provided for the UK and North America.
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Indexes
are provided by title, subject, place of publication (by
town and county), issuing body and people.
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A
major feature of the Directory
is the development of a family tree for all titles related
through mergers, common issuing bodies, or title changes.
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The
online edition is updated daily.
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Our
Sources
This
series includes the pertinent holdings of the Cambridge
University Libraries, the University of London Libraries, the
British Library's three branches (the main Euston Road branch,
the Colindale Newspaper Branch and Boston Spa Yorkshire
Documents Lending Branch), and such specialized London
repositories as the Royal Society Library, Wellcome Medical
Library, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. All
the nineteenth century English titles in NEWSPLAN are
included, usually in much greater detail.
The
Directory also
contains data from some 8,000 secondary sources which together
provide scholarly commentary on the majority of entries.
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Victorian Periodicals
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Online
Edition
The
Online edition has no limit on single-site simultaneous users.
Access may be allowed throughout your facility by a range of
IP addresses, or User Account/Password, or another method
preferred by your library.
Features include:
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Six
indexes: Title, Place: Town, Place: County, Issuing Body,
People, Subject.
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Each
index may be either browsed alphabetically or searched for
a specific word.
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Global
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Advanced
search: by an combination of Title (partial or whole),
Issuing Body, People, Subject,
Place, Dates.
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Taxonomy
Information
has been sought and generally found for 30 fields per record:
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- Subtitle
- Later
Title
- Generic
Title
- Numbering
- Dates
- Place
- Issuing
body
- Sub-issuing
body
- Editor
- Proprietor
- Publisher
- Printer
- Illustrator
- Illustrations
[types of]
- Contributors
- Frequency
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- Price
- Size
- Names
[personnel
whose function
is unknown]
- Circulation
- Indexing
- Merges
- Orientation
[political or
religious]
- Departments
- Sources
- Histories
- Comments
- Locations
[UK &
N. America]
- Facsimile
Title
Page
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