The Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (ncse) is a free, online scholarly edition of six nineteenth-century periodicals and newspapers. It is a collaboration between Birkbeck, University of London, King’s College London (Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Department of English), the British Library, and Olive Software. It was funded from January 2005 to December 2007 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council."
"The edition is formed of two integrated components: the 'Facsimile' component - a repository of full-page facsimiles and textual transcripts generated through OCR; and the 'Keyword' component - an index of semantic keywords and person, place and institution names, generated using data mining and natural language processing techniques. Both components of the system are fully searchable and include rich, bibliographic metadata attached to titles, volumes, issues, departments and articles within the edition.
ncse includes full runs of the first five titles, and a decade only of the Publishers’ Circular. Titles are represented as completely as possible, including multiple editions, advertisements, wrappers, and supplements where we could find them.
- Repository" class="int"> Monthly Repository (1806-1837) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833)
- Star" class="int"> Northern Star (1838-1852)
- Leader (1850-1860)
- Woman’s Journal" class="int"> English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864)
- Tomahawk (1867-1870)
- Publishers’ Circular" class="int"> Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890)
All six journals are segmented to article level, and can be downloaded freely."
