Open access and going digital in 2013 | The Shakespeare blog

"Looking back over 2013, there’s been a noticeable increase in Libraries, Museums and Archives making their digital collections available online. Organisations have been digitising their collections for years, and no wonder, since this potentially increases access to collections while simultaneously protecting the originals from the detrimental effects of handling, light damage or security risks. There have been difficulties along the way: to begin with there were no agreed standards for scanning or for detailed descriptive metadata, and individual organisations went their own ways. But now several portals are making it possible to search hundreds of collections in one go, and individual collections are allowing much more open access to their holdings ..."