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**** British Library launches new research resource **** 

Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and independent researchers
are to benefit from a versatile new pay-as-you-go service launched today
by the British Library. BRITISH LIBRARY DIRECT provides, for the first
time, access to a fully searchable database of article titles from the
top 20,000 international research journals. These records go back five
years and currently number around nine million - with 150,000 new
entries added each month. 

Upon finding the relevant article, the user can then order it online and
pay by his/her credit card to have the full text delivered to their
desktop within as little as 2 hours. There is no need to subscribe in
order to use the service and articles can be ordered singly or several
at a time. Nearly 20% of the articles available can be downloaded
instantly. To sample the new service, visit: http://direct.bl.uk 

British Library Direct will be particularly attractive to occasional
users such as SMEs and independent researchers and innovators. The
pay-as-you-go option offers easy access to the very latest research
articles without the need to open an account. 

Subject strengths include medicine, pharmacy, engineering, science, food
and agriculture, economics, environment, law and education. An
additional feature allows users to view abstracts of the articles found
by rolling their mouse over the article details. 

For further information please contact: 
Ben Sanderson at the British Library Press Office (telephone +44 (0)1937
546126, email: [log in to unmask]) or 
Lawrence Christensen (telephone +44 (0)20 7412 7114, email:
[log in to unmask]) 


Edmund Lee
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English Heritage
National Monuments Record Centre
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