
Thousands of books and papers of the British Library collection will soon be made available online through a new partnership with Google.
Google and the British Library will collaborate on the digitization of 250,000 out-of-copyright texts from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The British Library digital collection is expected to increase from 1.25 m to 50 elements in 2020 as it aims to find new ways for its collection accessible to scholars and members of the public, often free. Scanning texts without the help of Google's library would cost millions of pounds.