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• relevance to the National Curriculum
• content
• access options
• pricing
• subscription and invoicing
• how to get the best price
• 4 steps to subscription

• support for teachers
• free trials

Relevance to the National Curriculum

The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 is a primary source library of back issues of this renowned newspaper online and is therefore relevant to the teaching, learning and coursework requirements across the curriculum but is of particular interest to the History, English, Politics, Citizenship, Economics, Sociology and Geography departments.

The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 is suitable for all levels of study up to and including A/AS.

Content

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 delivers every page as published from 200 years of The Times newspaper in a user friendly online format. The Times since 1785 has covered key international historical events from the French Revolution to the Falkland War. For the first time, teachers and learners are able to search the full-text of the entire newspaper, including articles, editorials, pictures and advertising.

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 enables teachers and learners to look at key events in history as they were reported, analyse the impact of the major protagonists and learn about important episodes as they took place rather than just from the historical perspective.

From Einstein to Oscar Wilde, from Oliver Twist to 1984, from Queen Victoria to the partition of India and Pakistan, from the Russian Revolution to the Cultural Revolution, The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985 provides coverage of local and international news as it took place.

Further information about The Times Digital Archive can be found at www.gale.cengage.com/times

Access options

A range of access options is on offer to enable teachers and learners to use JISC Collections for Schools resources both within the school (for example by IP address) and from home (for example via Shibboleth, a link on the school's secure intranet, and / or username and password).

Pricing

Pricing is calculated on the basis of the total number of learners at schools that choose to subscribe to The Times Digital Archive, either independently or as part of a buying group.

• prices for individual schools
• prices for Local Authorities and buying groups

Subscription and invoicing information

The initial agreement for The Times Digital Archive is for one year and three months only. In July 2009, following changes to the Times Digital Archive, there will be a new multi-year agreement put in place.

• Schools or buying groups can join the agreement at any time from 1 April 2008.
• The licence agreement runs until 30 June 2009.
• Subscribers are required to maintain their subscription until 30 June 2009.
• Subscribing schools or buying groups will be invoiced on receipt of the Licence Agreement Form.
• Schools or buying groups entering into an agreement from 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008 will pay the pro-rata amount of Year 1 prices, from the date at which they enter the agreement until 30 June 2008.
• Schools or buying groups entering into an agreement during the course of the remaining subscription year, will pay the pro-rata amount from the date at which they enter the agreement until 30 June 2009 of the subscription year.

See our subscription faqs for more information.

How to get the best price

Regional Broadband Consortia are taking an active role in coordinating buying groups to achieve the highest possible discount for individual schools in their region. In places where this is not the case, JISC Collections is aggregating orders at a regional level.

If your school is interested in placing an order, or finding out about buying groups in your region, please email jcs-info@jisc.ac.uk

4 steps to subscription

1. Organise your buying group. Your buying group can be an individual school, an informal group of schools making a single transaction, a local authority for some or all of the schools in its region, or a Regional Broadband Consortium for some or all of the schools in its region.
2. Become a member of JISC Collections. Download the membership registration form if you are an English or Scottish school, local authority or Regional Broadband Consortium not already a member of JISC Collections. Contact Sarah Fahmy at jcs-info@jisc.ac.uk if you are an individual school, local authority or Regional Broadband Consortium in Northern Ireland or Wales not already a member of JISC Collections.
3. Download and read the licence and retain a copy for your records.
4. Download and complete 3 copies of the appropriate agreement form.
   • agreement form for RBCs
   • agreement form for local authorities
   • agreement form for individual schools
5. Keep 1 copy of the agreement form for your records and send the other two copies to:
   
   Sarah Fahmy
   JISC Collections
   Brettenham House
   5 Lancaster Place
   London, WC2N 7EN

Help with subscription

Help with subscription

To complete the Licence Agreement Form you will need to have the names of schools represented within your buying group, the total number of learners represented, and the IP range of the schools represented.

On receipt of the agreement, an invoice will be sent to you and access to the resource will be set up for the schools represented in you buying group.

If you need any help, email Sarah Fahmy at jcs-info@jisc.ac.uk who will assist you. Please ensure that you have ready the total number of learners represented by your school or buying group.

Support for teachers

The Times Digital Archive is suitable use in project and coursework requirements due to the diversity of information offered. Category headings and subjects of interest include:

• Advertising: provides an insight to contemporary life during the past 200 years.
• Business: any item to do with business activities that falls outside the news pages, including home markets, continental bourse, money markets, stocks and shares, company news and more.
• Editorial and Commentary: leading articles offering insight into the news, specialist contributors covering topics of the day and letters from readers.
• Features: books, cinema, theatre, opera, music, radio, television, chess, bridge, crosswords.
• Parliament: detailed and authoritative reports of words, speeches and debates in the Commons and the Lords.
• Law: the Law Reports are written and edited by barristers and for several weeks, until the law reports are published, are the only record of a new legal decision.
• News: from the news of the day to the latest political development, from the smallest news item to a story breaking worldwide.
• People: full coverage of births, deaths, marriages and obituaries.
• Picture Gallery: photographs, drawings or any pictorial item not associated with an article is located here.
• Sport: complete coverage of sporting events from the past 200 years.

Classroom support services are not yet available for this product, although teachers can take the virtual tour.

If you wish to submit your thoughts on classroom use and application of The Times Digital Archive, please email Sarah Fahmy at jcs-info@jisc.ac.uk

Once you have subscribed the following information and support for use of The Times Digital Archive is available.

Free trials

If you would like to evaluate The Times Digital Archive before making a purchasing decision, you can have free access for 30 days. The access will only be active for 30 days - so please ensure that you and your colleagues take advantage of the opportunity for free evaluation.

Email jcs-info@jisc.ac.uk to set up the 30 day free trail.