BOPCRIS digitisation projects
Digitisation activities
We provide high quality digital images of texts, pictures and maps from bound volumes, foldouts and single sheet documents. Clients include Jane Austen Chawton House Library, British Library, University of London - The Warburg Institute, British History Online, University of Cambridge, University of Bristol, Durham University, London School of Economics, University of Manchester, Newcastle University, University College London, Oxford University Press, University of Warwick, Southampton City Council and the Archaeological Institute.
We specialise in the bibliographic integration and digitisation of parliamentary texts, many being drawn from Professor and Dr Ford's selective works.
We are currently digitising 1.5Km of doctorate theses from the University of Southampton holdings and materials from our short loan reserve collections to provide searchable PDFs via our Library OPAC.
A member of the BOPCRIS Digitisation Unit visited the public exhibition of automated book scanners hosted at the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek - Munich 18th - 20th June 2008. The JISC commissioned report compared and contrasted book scanners for large scale digitisation projects and is available for download.
Assistive Technology is a new and growing area for us and we are able to offer scans for text readers and braille under the sanction of the CLA.
Example scans from digitisation activities
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19C British Pamphlets 
Some of the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets are held in UK research libraries. 23,000 paper copy pamphlets from seven university libraries were digitised by BOPCRIS (under the JISC digitisation call 2007-2009) and focus on political, economic and social issues. These provide an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. The materials are provided by JSTOR and accessed from the website 19C British Pamphlets Online
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- University of Southmpton News Release
- Launch Brochure
- RSLP 19C pamphlets online
- Liverpool launch presentation
EPPI - Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 
Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland 1801 - 1922 involved the cataloguing and full-text digitisation of a selection of British Parliamentary papers taken from the University of Southampton's unique Ford Collection of Official Publications. Funding was provided by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB).
The bibliographic records and searchable PDFs are now available for a large majority of the collection through the University of Southampton Library OPAC. We recommend 'switch to 'Advanced Searches' in order to limit your search and typing 'EPPI' into words or phrase plus any other search term.
18C British Official Parliamentary Publications
Over 1 million 18th century parliamentary publications were digitised by BOPCRIS under a JISC funded project 2005-2007. The comprehensive collection has been drawn from the University libraries at Southampton and Cambridge and the British Library. Coverage includes the Journals of the House of Commons and Lords, Parliamentary Registers, Sessional Papers of the House of Commons, Acts, Bills and Local and Personal Acts.
Web access to the 18the century parliamentary papers is available through the Proquest site. Under a JISC agreeemnt, these papers are available free to the UK HE academic community.
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BOPCRIS FORD COLLECTION 
The Ford selections of British Parliamentary Papers 1801 - 1995 is a finding aid to British Official Publications using a series of printed indexes created by Professor and Dr Ford. The contents of the indexes were integrated into a bibliographic database with additional detailed abstracting and indexing with funding provided by New Opportunities Fund (NOF), Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). This database has now been incorporated into the University of Southampton Library OPAC.
Plymouth Medical Society Historic Collection
The Unit undertook the digitisation of a number original texts for the Plymouth Medical Society. One item of interest were the Notes taken by John Clarke in 1781 from Mr Hunter's Lectures on Surgery.
From History to Her Story
One of the earliest of our digitising projects was created in partnership with West Yorkshire Archive Service. A large paper based resource was compiled into an online site detailing Yorkshire women's lives from 1100 to the present day. The site contains digitised full text documents and teaching materials.
Hidden Lives Revealed
Another project under the NOF programme in association with the Children's Society crated a virtual archive about children in care 1881-1918. The site contains photographs, a database of children's homes with links to related full-text case file documents about children in those homes, activities, articles and learning materials.
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