Our electronic Legal Deposit collection is a shared endeavour with the other UK Legal Deposit Libraries. Our access to this content is via the British Library and is currently not available.
While access to the full eLD database is not yet possible, we hope to launch an interim solution over the coming months that will offer some access to electronic material published before the attack. We aim to make this available before the end of Hilary term.
Access to other BL services including the UK Web Archive and inter-library requests remain affected.
Please see the Knowledge Matters blog for updates from the British Library following the cyber-attack in October 2023.
As you are aware, electronic Legal Deposit material is currently unavailable due the British Library outage. The publisher Taylor & Francis is the largest depositor of electronic Legal Deposit material and also the most accessed in this format. The Bodleian Libraries are pleased to announce that Taylor & Francis books and its other imprints (including Routledge and CRC Press) published from 2016-2025 (content added on publication) are now available on SOLO. Up to 35,000 Humanities and Social Sciences books will be available until December 2025. A selection will be made for permanent retention based on levels of usage and other criteria.
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