Internet Library of Early Journals

The Internet Library of Early Journals (ILEJ) is a now completed test project to explore the feasibility and standards for digitizing limited sequential runs of eighteenth and nineteenth‐century British periodicals and mount them as viewable images on a free, searchable site. The Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and Oxford undertook the project from 1996 until 1999, and have published their final technical report and declared the site closed; no further content will be added although the site still resides on the servers of the Oxford Bodleian Library. ILEJ is thus as much a historical record of digitization in...