The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It provides digitized access to the world’s most comprehensive research collection with information services to academic, business, research, and scientific communities. The library’s collection includes over 170 million items and artefacts from every age of written civilization. “We keep the nation’s archive of printed and digital publications, adding around three million new items to our collection every year.” 

The digitized collection includes more than 29 million catalogued books and other print materials in 460 languages, more than 58 million manuscripts, and the world's largest collection of legal materials, films, maps and sheet music. The library also provides access to over 95,000 selected sound recordings from the library’s extensive collection of music, spoken word and nature.  

The library’s online record has all doctoral theses awarded by UK higher education institutions, access to around 160,000 full text thesis, and the world’s largest collection of conference proceedings. It also has over 10 million searchable pages from more than 200 newspaper titles from UK and Ireland. “We ensure our collections are available to all who wish to discover and use them.”