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The Archives of the Bibliographical Society

The Bibliographical Society's Archive is now at the Bodleian Library and can be used by scholars and by members of the Society. All researchers wishing to use the Archive must have a valid Bodleian reader's ticket, but Members of the Society who are not otherwise eligible should bring to Bodleian Admissions their current signed Society's Programme Card together with proof of identification.

A finding list of the contents of the archive is available on the society's website (www.bibsoc.org.uk) and in the Special Collections Reading Room of the Bodleian Library; a full catalogue will be available in due course.

For enquiries email: enquiries.sc@bodley.ox.ac.uk

Online Access to the Library

The Library is now also available in online format, from Oxford University Press, via the web address http://www.library.oxfordjournals.org/. Access to the electronic version comes at no extra charge to members of the Bibliographical Society, and is available to those non-member subscribers who have opted for the combined print and online, or online-only, subscription rates.

Earlier volumes have also been converted to electronic format, and members of the Society now have free access to the complete back run of the journal, which reaches back to the late nineteenth century. Current subscribers via Oxford University Press have electronic access back to 1996.

Free Web Links for Authors to Online Articles in the Library

Since 2006 the authors of articles published in The Library have, as a matter of course, received free, permanent access to the online version of their articles. The links are sent as unique URLs, enabling authors to share their work with fellow scholars with greater ease. Authors of articles published at any time before 2006 may also apply to Oxford Journals to receive free URL links to their papers. Anyone wishing to take advantage of this development should e-mail Joanne Mason (libraj@oxfordjournals.org), stating the title, volume and part number, and date of the article or articles in question.

Authors should please note the following criteria applying to the use of published material:

1. •. articles should only be viewed through the OUP site. Until two years have passed they may not be hosted by an author's personal or institutional web site, although the URL(s) may be posted on personal or institutional sites

2. •. single copies of articles may be printed out and distributed to interested colleagues for their personal research or study purposes only. Anyone wishing to make any commercial use of online versions of articles should write to journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Bibliographical Society Library

The Society's library is now housed in Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU, alongside the resources of the University of London Research Library Services.

Procedures for consulting items in the Society's library have changed as a result of this move, the main change being that books are no longer borrowable. It is not possible to house the collection on open-access shelving within Senate House —items will instead be fetched on request —but members of the Society now have free reference access to all the other resources of the Senate House Library, on production of proof of status (a signed copy of the latest annual Society programme card) at the Library membership desk. Another result of the move is that items in the Society's library are now available for consultation by any registered user of Senate House Library. The books remain physically identifiable as belonging to the Society. This development follows the incorporation of records for items in the Society's library into the main University of London Research Library Services catalogue (http://catalogue.ulrls.lon.ac.uk).

Full details of contacts and opening hours at Senate House Library can be found on the web at http://www.shl.lon.ac.uk.