Retirement of JISC Historical Texts and Journal Archives  

As of July 31st 2024, the platform JISC Historical Texts and JISC Journal Archives will be retiring. We are currently subscribed to both platforms and use them to provide access to different collections such as Early English Books Online and Oxford Journals Archive. While we are sad that such a useful resources is being retired by JISC, the library has done its best to maintain access to as many of the collections held on the two platforms beyond July 31st. 

We have been unable to provide direct access to all of the collections due to circumstances outside of our control however access will remain for 3/4's of the collections, and we have details on where to find another two collections for free on the internet.   

Here are the collections we are maintaining access to and where to find them.  

JISC HISTORICAL TEXTS  

• Early English Books Online: The Library has subscribed to a trial to access this collection via Proquest, available at: Basic Search - Early English Books Online - ProQuest . Access will be maintained till the end of the year via ProQuest where we also subscribe to Early European Books which works well in tandem with EEBO. For more information check out our blog post from 20th May 2024.  

While we will no longer have access to these databases on the same platform they will still be available for free online:  

• UK Medical Heritage Library: - free on the Internet Archive at: UK Medical Heritage Library : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive.    
• British Library 19th Century Collection: This resource is also available for free, this time from the British Library website at: British Library website updates | The British Library (bl.uk). Unfortunately due to the cyberattack that the British Library suffered late 2023 some of the functions of the website are still down, including access to this digital collections for the time being.  

JISC JOURNAL ARCHIVES  (titles in collection below are available in LibrarySearch)

• British Periodicals I & II: Available through ProQuest along with the collections British Periodicals III & IV  
• Brill Journal Archive: Available on the Brill platform.  
• Cambridge Journals Digital Archive: Available with our current Cambridge titles on the Cambridge University Press platform  
• Institute of Civil Engineers Virtual Library Archive: Available with our current ICE titles on the ICE platform  
• Institute of Physics: Available on the IoP platform (available shortly)
• Periodicals Archive Online: Available through ProQuest.  
• Oxford Journals Archive and Archive Upgrade: Available with our current Oxford titles from our recent deal with Oxford University Press on their website  
• Royal Society of Chemistry: Available with our current RSC title on their website.
• Taylor & Francis Geography, Planning, Urban and Environment Online Archive: Available with our current Taylor and Francis titles on the Taylor and Francis website    

While we are sad to be losing some content from JISC Historical Texts and Journal Archives, we have done our best to maintain as much access as possible, including those platforms with the highest traffic from University of Wolverhampton.   

We will be losing access to the following collections from August 1st 2024:  

• Eighteenth Century Content Online