BNI on CD‐ROM

Nobody will dispute the importance of newspapers as information sources, whether for current affairs or for historical and reference information purposes. Within the time of my own career enormous strides have been taken in indexing and accessing newspapers, from nothing (except Palmer) to today’s electronic products. Not the least of these developments is the digitisation of and access to the texts of the newspapers: these may not be a cheap option, but for those libraries needing them (and that includes all of us in the academic sector especially but not uniquely) purchasing access to archived, regularly updated electronic full texts...