Thousands of pages from one of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals are to be made available on the internet.
The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century.
It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library http://www.bl.uk/ and Google bookshttp://books.google.co.uk/websites.
More here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13836332
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