British Library Direct

Publisher
Hundreds of different publishers (over 20,000 journals)

License Agreed
Free service for all users

Service Type
Resource Discovery/Current Awareness Service

Content in British Library Direct
British Library Direct (http://direct.bl.uk) offers pay-as-you-go access to articles from the top 20,000 international research journals, in fields ranging from aeronautics to agriculture, from pharmacy to law. BL Direct provides free table of contents searching from 5 years of data.

Upon finding a relevant article, the user can then order it online and pay by credit card. There is no need to subscribe in order to use the service and articles can be ordered singly or several at a time. Nearly 20% of the articles can be downloaded instantly.

PERI supports the use of the British Library Direct for online searching and the BL's Standard Service for document ordering. This service delivers paper documents by airmail.

Subject Strengths
Subject strengths include medicine, engineering, science, food and agriculture, economics, environment, law and education, with articles ranging from the latest research into avian flu to 'Phenotypic features of the domestic pigs bred in Roman settlements of Pompeii and Caralis' (in The Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology).

How Do I Gain Access?
Register at https://direct.bl.uk/bld/Logon.do - Each user can make an individual registration.

Further information about British Library Direct
http://direct.bl.uk

For Document Ordering through PERI
Please go to the British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) page here