Welcome to the British Library Research Archive

The British Library Research Archive is a database of papers and articles by British Library staff. It also contains papers by readers who have used the Library’s collections in their research and who do not have any institutional affiliation or access to another institutional repository. Papers from conferences organised and hosted by the British Library may also be included. The goal of the Archive is to provide free and full access to these materials, and to capture and preserve research that might otherwise be lost.

If your research falls into the above categories and you would like to deposit material, please register as a user. The help pages offer guidance on procedures for depositing.

Please note: if you have an enquiry about the British Library’s collections or if you are looking for general information on the Library, its catalogues, opening hours, etc., please visit the main BL website at http://www.bl.uk.

Find out more about the Archive or the SHERPA project to develop open-access institutional repositories.

Browse: Browse the archive by Subject or Year.
Latest Additions: View items added to the archive in the past week.
Simple Search: Search the archive using the most common fields.
Advanced Search: Search the archive using a more complex range of fields.
Registered Users Area: Registered users may submit items to the archive.
Register: Register for an account (or reset a forgotten password).

British Library Research Archive is running on GNU EPrints archive-creating software, which generates eprints archives that are compliant with the Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting OAI 1.1 and 2.0.

The GNU EPrints archive-creating software is available for free at http://software.eprints.org/.