About the project
The purpose of the proposed project is to provide enhanced access to the collections of nineteenth-century pamphlets housed in the CURL libraries, and to raise awareness of the breadth and scope of this valuable research resource. The realisation of the project¹s vision will unlock significant and rare primary resources, many of which have hitherto been untapped, for the benefit of UK researchers from a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. It will do this through the development of a  web-based guide which will map strengths at collection level, and the completion of a targeted programme of retrospective conversion of 177,000 items, which will underpin the delivery of enhanced, co-ordinated, networked catalogue access, based on the national COPAC service and freely available to all researchers in UK HEIs.