From: Carly Bareham <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 14:27:53 +0000

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Bloomsbury Partners with Consortia Groups to Bring the Churchill
Archive to Libraries in the UK, US and Canada

Multi-consortium agreement signed with CRL and partners, JISC, CRKN

London, May 29, 2012 – Leading independent publisher Bloomsbury and
three major library consortia have agreed to terms on a
ground-breaking agreement that will offer the Churchill Archive online
collection at favorable rates to more than 500 academic institutions
in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. As part of this
unique international arrangement, members of the Center for Research
Libraries (CRL), JISC Collections, the Canadian Research Knowledge
Network (CRKN) and select partner consortia will be eligible for
discounts on both subscription and perpetual access to the Churchill
Archive in 2012.  The offer was developed during detailed negotiations
between CRL and Bloomsbury’s sales and marketing partner, Publishers
Communication Group.  It is distinctive in its cross-country
collaborative licensing aspects.

The Churchill Archive makes more than 800,000 pages of key historical
documents from the life of Winston S. Churchill available online for
the first time ever (the original documents are deposited with
Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge). Published in collaboration with
the Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust and Churchill Heritage Ltd,
the collection is designed as a research and teaching resource for
everyone from university faculty and lecturers to students, teachers,
researchers, writers, and anyone with an interest in 20th-century
history, politics or international affairs.

Available to libraries worldwide via annual subscription or perpetual
access purchase, the Churchill Archive is based on a tiered pricing
model that allows both large and small organizations to benefit from
access to this unique historical collection. The Churchill Archive
will launch in August 2012, with free trials to the beta site
beginning in June 2012.

“The shared agreement with CRL, CRKN and JISC Collections represents a
major step towards our goal of delivering this historical treasure to
students and scholars around the world,” commented Churchill Archive
Publisher, Dr Frances Pinter. “We are extremely excited about this
collaboration and look forward to continuing to work with these and
other consortium groups to make the Churchill Archive as accessible as
possible.”

The multi-consortium initiative provides many U.K., U.S. and Canadian
institutions with a more effective means of access to the Churchill
Archive, along with favorable terms and conditions and a more
simplified licensing process. This agreement with Bloomsbury
Publishing also reflects the consortium groups’ shared aim of widening
access to archival content on behalf of their member institutions.

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Notes to Editors:

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc – Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading
independent publishing house with companies in London, New York, Doha,
Dehli and Sydney. Its four divisions are Bloomsbury Academic &
Professional Publishing, Bloomsbury Information, Bloomsbury Adult
Publishing and Bloomsbury Children's Publishing.

Bloomsbury Academic & Professional Publishing – Bloomsbury Academic &
Professional specialises in the humanities, social sciences, law and
tax publishing. It is the division at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc that
is responsible for publishing the Churchill Archive, plus various
other digital products such as Drama Online (with Faber) and the Berg
Fashion Library. The division also includes Berg Publishers, Methuen
Drama, Arden Shakespeare, Bristol Classical Press, Continuum and
Bloomsbury Professional.

Sir Winston Churchill Archive Trust is the charitable trust that owns
the Churchill Papers Collection on behalf of the Nation. The Trustees
work closely with the Director and staff of the Churchill Archives
Centre to ensure that the collection is used for the advancement of
the education of the public, in particular by acquiring, holding,
restoring and maintaining the Churchill Archive and by making it
available to scholars for the purpose of research (and publication of
the useful results of such research) and as appropriate to the public
for the purpose of viewing.

The Churchill Archives Centre was opened in 1973. It was built to
house the personal papers of Sir Winston Churchill, and also collects
the archives of Churchill's great contemporaries and great successors;
the papers of politicians, diplomats, public servants, military
leaders and scientists. It is also the repository for the papers of
Baroness Thatcher. The Centre is located in the grounds of Churchill
College, Cambridge, itself a National and Commonwealth Memorial to Sir
Winston.

Churchill Heritage Ltd represents the Churchill family literary
copyrights included within the Churchill Papers Collection.

For further details contact:

Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College Cambridge
Mr Allen Packwood, Director,
T (0)1223 336175
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Bloomsbury Academic and Professional, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Frances Pinter, Publisher,
or Jonathan Glasspool, Managing Director
T (0) 20 7631 5600
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For sales enquiries contact:
Publishers Communication Group
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