Website improvements
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Proposal for Enhancing The British Newspaper Archive
Hello esteemed community and The British Newspaper Archive administration!
I'd like to share an idea for further improving our newspaper archive https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2023/12/20/one-million-new-free-to-view-pages-join-the-archive/. We all value access to historical information, and I've been thinking about how to make this experience even more convenient and beneficial.I believe that enhancing the search system could make our interaction with the archive more efficient. I suggest adding advanced search options, such as filters for date ranges, specific newspapers, and regions. This would help users find information more quickly and accurately, making it easier to navigate and utilize the archive.
I'm eager to hear your…
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£1 subscription probkems
I'd like to get an £1 subscription please. I had one last time it was offered, but don't seem to be able to get another today. And now it will soon be too mater to be able to get one. Advice please.
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AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Hello,
Can you contact Customer Support and they will be able to look into this directly for you!
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Improve resolution of PDFs, or just let us download the original image
The PDFs we get to download now are in some cases completely unreadable because the image resolution is far too low. This is especially disappointing when you save the PDF, and come back to do some work from it later on only to find it's a unusable.
Why can't we download high resolution images instead?
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All titles
Allow us to vote on a full list of available titles to add to the site !!
2 votesClosed - Completed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
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Hello,
You can vote on any title you like using the “newspapers we should add next”. As long as it is a title from Britain & Ireland (up to 1920) it should in theory be available to us.
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List of titles not yet online
Can we please have a list of titles not yet online, for reference?
0 votesClosed - Completed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
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To a certain extent, the list of titles not yet online is simply any newspaper published within the UK up to the present day and Ireland up to 1920. However, a good source is the British Library’s catalogue which details their newspaper holding – we hope this is useful! http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do
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I have an unlimited account. So far this morning twice a search has left me on a blank page with "no data available" message.
HELP! I have an unlimited account. Twice this morning searches resulted in blank pages with "no data available" statement. Twice again on another search I got the message to tell you that there was error "viewer/bl/00000346/18740701/021/00003." What now????!!!! Brenda Turner
1 voteClosed - Completed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
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Now fixed!
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Blue boxes
I would like to suggest you stop using the blue boxes the highlight the search terms used when viewing a article. Sometimes it blocks out the entire word and makes it harder to read.
0 votesClosed - Completed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
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Hello, you can turn this on and off from the image viewer: just use the “hide search terms” button on the left of the viewer!
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password
Get the password reset working. I sign up over a week ago and still can't sign in. no one has replied to my email.
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Larger windows to view articles
Enlarge window to view articles.
0 votesClosed - Completed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Hello,
You can make the image viewer go full screen which will help with this.
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Hi. I do not like the fact that your website has as a default the automatic renewal of monthly membership. I
I subscribed for one month and then found that the subscription renewed without my permission. This is not good enough. I have cancelled the auto renew but should not have had to. Please correct. You state that this has been done, but it is obviously not clear still.
1 voteClosed - Completed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
Hello there,
This should now be clear. The first place that this is mentioned is on the subscription page itself. There is then very clear wording in the confirmation email that you receive when you make a purchase, including instructions for now to turn off continuous membership. Please let us know if you received a purchase confirmation email which did not contain this information and we will investigate!
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Voting on Scanning Priority
Catalog of Newspapers and available periods stoed (physically) at BL - with an option at the archive site to subscribers to vote for next batch of scanning (paper/time period)... ie. the people paying for access have say in priority
1 voteClosed - Completed ·AdminThe British Newspaper Archive
(Head of Data Development, The British Newspaper Archive)
responded
You can now do this via the “Newspapers we should add next” ideas board. In terms of seeing what is available at BL, this is slightly challenging, but please work on the assumption that anything which receives a lot of requests will be investigated by us to determine what holdings are readily available
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