British Library Direct
Year Joined PERii
2002
Resource Name
British Library Direct (Hundreds of different publishers (over 20,000 journals)
Resource Type
Resource Discovery/Current Awareness Service
Access URL
https://direct.bl.uk/bld/Logon.do
Content Overview
British Library Direct 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).
Service Strengths
* Search across 20,000 journals for free
* Order full text quickly and easily using your credit card
Usage Guides
Take a tour of British Library Direct http://www.bl.uk/services/bldirecttour/home.html
Access Information
Access by IP address recognition.
Publisher Support/Help Contract
bldirect-help@bl.uk
URL to General Publisher Site
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/Home.do
Further Information from your Country Coordinator
The details for your country coordinator can be found on your country page. Please use the Country Finder on the right-hand side of this page.
Information for Librarians
Information for Librarians
Administration Details
Individual users can update their login information here.
Platform
British Library Direct
Promotional Information/Materials
Contact marketing@bl.uk
Publisher Newsletter Details
E-newsletter
Usage Data Collection
N/A, but individual users can check their Order History page for details of all past transactions.
PERii FAQs
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PERii Help Documents
Please see the online help documents for further information about INASP policy on username and password access, registration, registration record keeping, downloading from publishers websites, access issues and statistics.
Publisher FAQs
http://direct.bl.uk/bld/Faq.do