British Library

Description

Research is central to the British Library's role as the national library of the United Kingdom. It helps the British Library to share their collections and intellectual heritage with people across the globe.

Research, moreover, informs and supports almost every aspect of the British Library, be it curation, conservation, preservation, resource discovery, digital innovation, cultural programmes or learning. The library's staff are active in their specialist research areas and collaborate widely. The British Library is, in fact, an active partner in research projects, and members also co-supervise doctoral research in partnership with universities, covering a range of disciplines and subject areas.

The British Library collections are world-renowned for research across arts and humanities, social sciences, and the history of science, technology and medicine. As an institution that covers all subjects and time periods the library is a unique resource for interdisciplinary research.

The British Library's Digital Research Team runs the library's Digital Scholarship programme, covering digital humanities, digitisation, IIIF-based viewer tools such as the Universal Viewer, and the application of AI and machine learning (including OCR and handwritten text recognition) to make collections suitable for computational research. Since 2012 the team has delivered the Digital Scholarship Training Programme (around 40 events a year) and run public crowdsourcing projects including Georeferencer and In the Spotlight.

Currently active

Yes

Offers funding

Yes, this infrastructure provides funding in the following categories:

Founding year

1973

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Partner Universities

King's College London (KCL)

Additional Partnerships

Chevening (UK government international awards scheme); Mainz Charitable Trust