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The Churchill Archive makes more than 800,000 pages of key historical documents from the life of Winston S. Churchill available online for the first time ever (the original documents are deposited with Churchill Archives Centre,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 20^th-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.

For more information please email churchillarchive@pcgplus.com.

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; email director.archives@chu.cam.ac.uk

Bloomsbury Academic and Professional, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Frances Pinter, Publisher,
or Jonathan Glasspool, Managing Director
T (0) 20 7631 5600; email frances.pinter@bloomsbury.com  jonathan.glasspool@bloomsbury.com  

For sales enquiries contact:

Publishers Communication Group
Email churchillarchive@pcgplus.com

For immediate release
May 30, 2012

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