Paul Gooding is Research Fellow in Digital Humanities in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.

• ContentsFigures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Search All About It!Methods for Assessing ImpactUser Studies in the Age of Large-Scale Newspaper DigitisationSummaryChapter Bibliography1 The Myth of the NewGoogle Books: The Universal Library ReimaginedThe Role of the Technological SublimeDiffusion of InnovationsMechanical Reproduction and the End of the Age of the AuthorThe City and Information OverloadReality and RemediationSummary: Waiting for the Paradigm ShiftChapter Bibliography2 Digitised Newspapers: Histories, Contexts, BehavioursThe History of Newspapers in the United KingdomIssues for the Identity of Libraries in the Digital AgeExisting Research into Online User BehaviourSummary: Concurrent Discourses of DigitisationChapter Bibliography3 Exploring Methods for Evaluating User BehaviourMethods for Case Study ResearchQuantitative MethodsWeb AnalyticsReferrer AnalysisCitation AnalysisLink AnalysisQualitative MethodsInterviewsSurveysSummaryChapter Bibliography4 Institutional Impact of Large-Scale Digitised CollectionInstitutional ImpactCase Study: Using interviews to identify institutional impactsImplications for User SupportLicensing and Copyright: Dual Barriers to ImpactWhat Role do Libraries Have in an Age of Large-Scale Digitisation?Summary: Online Access and the Future of LibrariesChapter Bibliography5 The Impact of Large-Scale Digitisation upon UsersUsers of Large-Scale DigitisationCase Study: Citation Analysis of BNCNCase Study: Online Survey of Users of Digitised NewspapersChanging Models of User BehaviourCase Study: Web Log Analysis of Welsh Newspapers OnlineEngagement with Users of Large-Scale Digitised CollectionsSummary: Where We’re Going We’ll Still Need ReadersChapter Bibliography6 "Unequally Free": Mapping Public Access to Digitised CollectionsInnovative Technologies, Longstanding TensionsMapping the Digitised DivideCase Study: Mapping the Users of Digitised Newspaper CollectionsInequalities in Access by English Public Library AuthoritySummary: The Digitised Divide in ActionChapter Bibliography7 Conclusion: Where We’re Going, We’ll Still Need RanganathanIntroductionAccess to Digitised Library CollectionsRecommendationsThe Stakes for Digitised CollectionsOpen AccessOpen InterfacesOpen DialogueSummary: Library Digitisation as a Public ServiceChapter Bibliography

"Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age will be of interest to media historians and other researchers who use digitised newspapers collections.[...] Overall, this is a very interesting book both for what it tells us about how digital resources are currently used by researchers, and how this diverges from earlier overly optimistic projections of total revolution."-Aaron Ackerley, University of Sheffield, UK

Paul Gooding is Research Fellow in Digital Humanities in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.

• ContentsFigures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Search All About It!Methods for Assessing ImpactUser Studies in the Age of Large-Scale Newspaper DigitisationSummaryChapter Bibliography1 The Myth of the NewGoogle Books: The Universal Library ReimaginedThe Role of the Technological SublimeDiffusion of InnovationsMechanical Reproduction and the End of the Age of the AuthorThe City and Information OverloadReality and RemediationSummary: Waiting for the Paradigm ShiftChapter Bibliography2 Digitised Newspapers: Histories, Contexts, BehavioursThe History of Newspapers in the United KingdomIssues for the Identity of Libraries in the Digital AgeExisting Research into Online User BehaviourSummary: Concurrent Discourses of DigitisationChapter Bibliography3 Exploring Methods for Evaluating User BehaviourMethods for Case Study ResearchQuantitative MethodsWeb AnalyticsReferrer AnalysisCitation AnalysisLink AnalysisQualitative MethodsInterviewsSurveysSummaryChapter Bibliography4 Institutional Impact of Large-Scale Digitised CollectionInstitutional ImpactCase Study: Using interviews to identify institutional impactsImplications for User SupportLicensing and Copyright: Dual Barriers to ImpactWhat Role do Libraries Have in an Age of Large-Scale Digitisation?Summary: Online Access and the Future of LibrariesChapter Bibliography5 The Impact of Large-Scale Digitisation upon UsersUsers of Large-Scale DigitisationCase Study: Citation Analysis of BNCNCase Study: Online Survey of Users of Digitised NewspapersChanging Models of User BehaviourCase Study: Web Log Analysis of Welsh Newspapers OnlineEngagement with Users of Large-Scale Digitised CollectionsSummary: Where We’re Going We’ll Still Need ReadersChapter Bibliography6 "Unequally Free": Mapping Public Access to Digitised CollectionsInnovative Technologies, Longstanding TensionsMapping the Digitised DivideCase Study: Mapping the Users of Digitised Newspaper CollectionsInequalities in Access by English Public Library AuthoritySummary: The Digitised Divide in ActionChapter Bibliography7 Conclusion: Where We’re Going, We’ll Still Need RanganathanIntroductionAccess to Digitised Library CollectionsRecommendationsThe Stakes for Digitised CollectionsOpen AccessOpen InterfacesOpen DialogueSummary: Library Digitisation as a Public ServiceChapter Bibliography

"Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age will be of interest to media historians and other researchers who use digitised newspapers collections.[...] Overall, this is a very interesting book both for what it tells us about how digital resources are currently used by researchers, and how this diverges from earlier overly optimistic projections of total revolution."-Aaron Ackerley, University of Sheffield, UK

Paul Gooding is Research Fellow in Digital Humanities in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.

• ContentsFigures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: Search All About It!Methods for Assessing ImpactUser Studies in the Age of Large-Scale Newspaper DigitisationSummaryChapter Bibliography1 The Myth of the NewGoogle Books: The Universal Library ReimaginedThe Role of the Technological SublimeDiffusion of InnovationsMechanical Reproduction and the End of the Age of the AuthorThe City and Information OverloadReality and RemediationSummary: Waiting for the Paradigm ShiftChapter Bibliography2 Digitised Newspapers: Histories, Contexts, BehavioursThe History of Newspapers in the United KingdomIssues for the Identity of Libraries in the Digital AgeExisting Research into Online User BehaviourSummary: Concurrent Discourses of DigitisationChapter Bibliography3 Exploring Methods for Evaluating User BehaviourMethods for Case Study ResearchQuantitative MethodsWeb AnalyticsReferrer AnalysisCitation AnalysisLink AnalysisQualitative MethodsInterviewsSurveysSummaryChapter Bibliography4 Institutional Impact of Large-Scale Digitised CollectionInstitutional ImpactCase Study: Using interviews to identify institutional impactsImplications for User SupportLicensing and Copyright: Dual Barriers to ImpactWhat Role do Libraries Have in an Age of Large-Scale Digitisation?Summary: Online Access and the Future of LibrariesChapter Bibliography5 The Impact of Large-Scale Digitisation upon UsersUsers of Large-Scale DigitisationCase Study: Citation Analysis of BNCNCase Study: Online Survey of Users of Digitised NewspapersChanging Models of User BehaviourCase Study: Web Log Analysis of Welsh Newspapers OnlineEngagement with Users of Large-Scale Digitised CollectionsSummary: Where We’re Going We’ll Still Need ReadersChapter Bibliography6 "Unequally Free": Mapping Public Access to Digitised CollectionsInnovative Technologies, Longstanding TensionsMapping the Digitised DivideCase Study: Mapping the Users of Digitised Newspaper CollectionsInequalities in Access by English Public Library AuthoritySummary: The Digitised Divide in ActionChapter Bibliography7 Conclusion: Where We’re Going, We’ll Still Need RanganathanIntroductionAccess to Digitised Library CollectionsRecommendationsThe Stakes for Digitised CollectionsOpen AccessOpen InterfacesOpen DialogueSummary: Library Digitisation as a Public ServiceChapter Bibliography

"Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age will be of interest to media historians and other researchers who use digitised newspapers collections.[...] Overall, this is a very interesting book both for what it tells us about how digital resources are currently used by researchers, and how this diverges from earlier overly optimistic projections of total revolution."-Aaron Ackerley, University of Sheffield, UK