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  1. academic citations

    adding a citation button to help with citing your amazing newspaper

    14 votes
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  2. Search for a phrase is often ignored

    When I search for a phrase, for example "W. Hunter" to get only hits for "W. Hunter" it is very annoying that I get endless hits for just "W." Can the search engine not be taught to ONLY look for "W. Hunter" ?

    6 votes
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  3. Exact searching

    Because words like "and", "of" etc. seem to be used as operators, I often can't use them in the way I'd like. For example, I want to search for the EXACT phrase "The Horse and Hounds". At the moment, I can't see how to do it.
    I would like to be able to search for an EXACT phrase , e.g. "The Horse and Hounds" without

    2 votes
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  4. Facility to download pages as JPEG as well asPDF

    Please display on Edge to full screen as on Chrome

    3 votes
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  5. Pages for all counties

    Some coverage of all uk counties in the first instance...still many with no pages at all.

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  6. highlighting in editing box

    It would be extremely helpful if the blue highlighting box (search result) on the image could be replicated in the editing box so as to save lots of iterative attempts to find that highlighted text for editing.

    4 votes
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  7. adoption of corrections

    When I edit an article's text, when are those corrections taken into account for a future search? I have been doing corrections for months and none of them have been picked up in subsequent searches.

    6 votes
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  8. Previous/next result

    Add ‘Previous result’ and ‘Next result’ links to each page shown from a list of search results, so that it is not necessary to return to the results list before viewing the next result. The Times Digital Archive already has this facility.

    2 votes
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  9. Zooming feature

    I've just rejoined after a couple of years away... maybe it's because I am using Chrome now but when I zoom in to read a highlighted result, I cannot move the page around so the highlight if off the screen... I do not want to have to make a pdf of every result, however tangential to my research! Maybe there should be arrows/ + and - signs, for zooming/navigating a page that are not appearing on my screen? I am having a similar issue on ancestry so it maybe a browser issue

    36 votes
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  10. A Timeline, simple base line of world/UK event dates occurring at, or near the atricle date

    Place the articles in some kind of timeline, a simple baseline graph idea would help I suppose. I don't have a plan but whenever I find an article concerning an ancestor it would help to picture the time he was living in - who was on the throne, world action concerning Britain etc.

    6 votes
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  11. Highlighted articles

    I'd like to be able to download and/or print a page that highlights articles of interest as they appear on the screen.

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    Open - Under review  ·  The British Newspaper Archive responded

    Can you give us some more detail here? How would we work out which article were of interest to you, or are you just wanting an easier way to save and print individual articles as you come across them?

  12. rewards for repairing OCR efforts

    a reward system for repairing defective OCR results

    7 votes
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  13. Reporting errors to you

    An easier way to report errors to you. I've found pages that won't open, the OCR being nearly non existent, the OCR covering a different article on another page, the OCR not opening. When I have reported these errors in the past all I receive back is a standard reply regarding the OCR will have errors and not responding to my specific point.

    37 votes
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  14. Publication issue

    Provide the issue number of the publication in the header information.

    2 votes
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  15. Poor Page Quality

    Ability to flag scan quality issues with some pages and get them rectified.

    22 votes
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  16. Academic Citation

    The BNA has become an invaluable tool for researchers. I'd like the ability to download a citation of the records in the common formats MLA, Chicago etc.Your database is likely to contain the required information such as source, date, page number and so on. Is there any chance of such a facility being added?

    71 votes
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    Pending - For future development  ·  9 comments  ·  feedback  ·  Admin →
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  17. Next/previous day

    Provide a forward/backward button when viewing a page so that you can skip to the same page in the next/previous day of the same publication

    11 votes
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  18. Improve viewer layout to make it easier to navigate

    I prefer the page layout used by Gale News Vault. It makes it much easier to scroll through a news article. The default window in BNA is too small, and changing to full page view makes it very difficult to navigate the page.

    82 votes
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  19. Translate Welsh into English facility.

    A translation facility to translate Welsh language newspaper articles etc into English.

    George Middlehurst

    2 votes
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  20. Combining BNA & FMP subscriptions

    i have findmypast but choose to subscribe separately to the bna as it offers a much better search but why should i pay twice why not link thro to the bna site so we can do our own search within the fmp subscription?

    33 votes
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