Portico, under News from the British Library/Initiatives for Access News, has
details of a number of electronic projects under trial: electronic photographs;
Beowulf (also accessible at other places on the Net); digitisation for document
supply (an agreement currently for 50 journals); digitising microfilm; the
experimental Network OPAC (restricted to U.K. sites at the moment and
containing 6 million data records); PixTex/EFS indexing (trial with early
newspaper images); and digitisation of 'treasures'.
To access portico: use a web browser and go to the URL gopher://portico.bl.uk/
Dave Postles
pot@leicester.ac.uk