With archives hosting about 180 million works, the world’s largest library is drawing interest from AI startups looking to train their large language models on content that won’t get them sued. Black ...

The urgency to foster digital inclusion and advance effective data governance has never been greater, especially on the African continent. Millions remain excluded from digital opportunities due to ...

The Digital Library team, based in the Library, is digitising the Library’s collections to unlock the data within and make it openly available on the web. Working with academic colleagues at LSE and ...

We provide access to a wide range of data from across the globe and have a team to assist you with your queries related to finding and managing research data. However, we are unable to provide support ...

Think tank Onward is pushing for a secure platform of anonymised data from the UK’s public services. Politicians should back calls to develop a British data library if they want to see the UK give ...

At the end of a project, you will need to decide which of your research data to preserve and dispose of. Where possible, data selected for long-term preservation should be made as discoverable and ...

Digital research data should be stored securely and backed up regularly, with access available only to those who need it. You are advised to store only what you need to keep. The sections below ...

The British Library said it had been a victim of a cyber attack The British Library says it has evidence that user data was hacked in a cyber attack and offered for sale on the dark web. The library ...