TabbedOverviewAtlantic Studies, 1700-1900, formerly known as British Records on the Atlantic World (BRAW), is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP). This series includes archival materials such as journals, correspondence, official records and personal papers over a two hundred year period, all related to British involvement in the Atlantic region, including both Africa and the Americas. Provider: Microform Academic PublishersPosted: Feb 7, 2011 10:32amUpdated: Jun 20, 2017 10:40amSourceCRL reviews are based on independent research. Information is researched by CRL staff and other specialists at CRL libraries. See CRL Review for additional source notes.See also: British Online Archives DetailsCollection ContentSubject Areas: Social SciencesResource Types: Archival materialsCorrespondenceMajor Languages: English - Denotes data sourced directly from publisherContent Details: Topics coveredBritish and British colonial history; culture; trade; politics; economics; religion Geographic coverageBritain, Americas, Africa Chronological coverage1700-1900 Source format(s)manuscript and printed materials Total titlesNA (16 collections of archival documents) Total pages386,000 (as of August 2013) Digital collection launch date2008 Completion dateNA Collection ongoing Y Update frequencyquarterly Available supplements Included automatically during initial access period SpecificationsMetadata: MARC records available Y (but currently only for 11 collections in BRAW) Creator of MARC records Source for obtaining MARC recordsNA Fee for MARC recordsNA Subject authorities usedNA Name authorities usedNA Technical Platform: Browser compatibilityMost browsers (problems observed with old versions of Adobe Reader) Authentication optionsIP address ranges; individual username/password Archiving solution (master files)NA Archiving solution (derivative files) NA Available in web discovery tools N Open url target Y Federated searching, z39.50 N Local host option Y Usage stats based on Counter codeY Interface Tools: Full text displayed Y (for transcriptions) Page images Y Color images Y (limited to a small number of collections) Search full text Y (limited to non-handwritten documents) Advanced search Y Search within results N Limit results by dates and/or document types Y Display highlighted search terms N Display snippet (search term in context)N Relevance sorting N Save searches Y (when using end-user login) Download PDF Y (but only individual pages) Download HTML N Print page Y Print full document N Export citations N Annotation tools N Cross-product searching Y ILL permittedY (to be negotiated with requesting institution) Text/data mining permittedNA Restrictions on usesee license for details Terms and Provider DetailsTerms: Provider notes Subscription option Y Purchase option Y Multiple year payments option Y Maintenance feesY Hosting charges Y Provider: Microform Academic Publishers Main Address: Main Street, East Ardsley, Wakefield West Yorkshire WF3 2AP United Kingdom Provider Notes: This resource is distributed by Bludeau Partners International LLC http://www.bludeaupartnersinternational.com CRL ReviewCollection Content: Atlantic Studies, 1700-1900, formerly known as British Records on the Atlantic World (BRAW) is a thematic series contained as a sub-set within the digitized archival content known as British Online Archives (BOA), distributed by Microform Academic Publishers (MAP). This series includes archival materials such as journals, correspondence, official records and personal papers over a two hundred year period, all related to British involvement in the Atlantic region, including both Africa and the Americas. BRAW currently is made up of sixteen different collections drawn largely from trading documents and missionary papers from various archival repositories. The mission societies include SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts), which first sent missions to America to minister to slaves and Native Americans beginning in the early 1700s. The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG), whose archives from 1710-1950 form part 11 of the BRAW collections, was formed in 1965 on the merger of the SPG and the UMCA (Universities’ Mission to Central Africa). The total collections in BRAW as of August 2013 are: Part 1: Records relating to the Slave Trade at the Liverpool Record Office Part 2: American Material in the Archives of the USPG, 1635-1812 Part 3: The Papers of William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797 Part 4: Jamaican Material in the Slebech Papers Part 5: Papers relating to the Jamaican Estates of the Goulburn Family of Betchworth House Part 6: Papers of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1694-1709 Part 7: Journal, Annual Sermons and Reports of the SPG, 1701-1870 Part 8: South American Missionary Society Records, 1844-1919 Part 9: Liverpool Street and Trade Directories, 1766-1900 Part 10: Early Colonial and Missionary Records from West Africa Part 11: West Indies Material in the Archives of the USPG, 1710-1950 Part 12: The Archives of the Associates of Dr Bray to 1900 Part 13: The Collected Papers of the Bolton Whitman Fellowship Part 14: Canadian Papers of the 4th Earl of Minto Part 15: American Material from the Tarleton Papers Part 16: Liverpool Customs Bills of Entry, 1820-1939 In all, the sixteen collections currently total around 386,000 pages. The largest collection is the “Liverpool Street and Trade Directories,” with the next two largest being the archival collections from the SPG and USPG. All of this material was previously microfilmed by MAP, and distributed as British Records Relating to America in Microform (BRRAM). 2017 Updates: The list of titles in this collection has been updated to the following: COLLECTION NAME # OF IMAGES America in records from colonial missionaries, 1635-1812 33,927 Slave trade records from Liverpool, 1754-1792 2,974 Trade and Commerce in Liverpool to 1900 82,026 Slave trading records from William Davenport & Co., 1745-1797 1,891 The West Indies: slavery, plantations and trade, 1756-1832 9,074 Slavery in Jamaica, records from a family of slave owners, 1750-1860 6,140 Scottish trade with the Americas in the early 18th century, 1694-1709 10,220 Colonial missionaries' papers from America and the West Indies, 1701-1870 40,034 South American missionaries' records, 1844-1919 20,386 Ghana and Sierra Leone in colonial and missionary records, 1700-1850 3,980 The West Indies in Records from colonial missionaries, 1710-1950 40,034 Walt Whitman and his fellowship of supporters in Bolton, 1891-1913 7,401 Negro Schools' in Canada, America and the Bahamas, 1701-1900 24,547 India, uprising and reform 1905 to 1910: in the records of the Governor-General 14,960 American slave trade records and other papers of the Tarleton family, 1678-1838 655 Liverpool shipping records: imports and exports, 1820-1900 85,669 Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907 25,431 Bristol shipping records: imports and exports, 1770-1917 29,295 British Army Lists of Officers, 1740-1784 6,694 American prisoners of war, 1812-1815 5,932 Canada in records from colonial missionaries, 1722-1952 56,997 The American Revolution from a British Perspective, 1764-1783 83,626 American records in the House of Lords archive, 1621-1917 42,925 Canada, America & the West Indies imports and exports to the UK, 1678-1825 22,582 Slavery: supporters and abolitionists, 1675-1865 28,313 Caribbean colonial statistics from the British Empire, 1824-1950 188,259 Delivery: Technical platform & interface Each of the collections included within BRAW can be individually searched on the BOA platform. See the CRL review of BOA for a critique of the platform features. Additionally, there is a separate landing page for BRAW within the BOA platform. While that would seem to be desirable, since the sixteen BRAW collections form such a large subset of the thirty-eight collections currently in BOA, there are several functional drawbacks to the design of this particular landing page: Only a basic keyword search is available. The advanced search option defaults to the BOA advanced search, so one cannot perform advanced search operations on the full group or selected collections specifically constituting the BRAW subject series. The listing of collections included in BRAW is displayed in a dynamically scrolling insert; it is difficult to grasp at once the full list of collections, and there is no apparent order to the listing. They are neither in alphabetical order by title of the collection nor in the numbering order originally assigned (part 6, part 5, part 14, part 9, etc.). There is no prompt to return to the full group of BOA collections; the “home” button reverts back to the BRAW landing page. Metadata The metadata for individual collections is quite thorough. Records appear to be based on Dublin core. These are displayed for each “series”, document, and page image. Documents are assigned digital identifiers. Document level metadata often includes lengthy title annotations for unpublished materials, and notes the original archival collection source, such as “Liverpool Record Office”. Page image records include any page level tagging, such as the date of a manuscript letter. MARC records were created for the initial eleven collections in BRAW; the publishers indicate that they will investigate the feasibility of producing more MARC records for the other collections. Terms: The modules can be purchased as a group with a one time payment, or separately (which includes a five-year payment option per module) The initial five-year licensed access period includes a hosting fee and, in the case of a license to the whole series, any new collections added during that period. Thereafter a hosting fee of 5% of the list price p.a. will be charged, and new collections in the series may be added on payment of a supplement. Strengths and Weaknesses: The strengths and weaknesses pertaining to the British Online Archives (BOA) database as a whole are relevant here: While the scope of some of the individual collections may be somewhat narrow, MAP’s effort to convert an extensive microform series is impressive. The use of a conventional hierarchical archival collection structure for the browse lists, and inclusion of contextual collection descriptions plus well-formed metadata extending down to page level are welcome features which should serve scholars and students alike. Regarding basic functional deficiencies in the platform, MAP has indicated a willingness to consider implementing features including: ability to download and print a maximum of a full document at a time rather than one page at a time; ability to apply search functions to multiple selected collections. Also as noted, there are also a number of deficiencies inherent in the BRAW series search page (as distinct from the main BOA search interface), which make it an unsatisfactory way to search these collections. Reviewers: Center for Research Libraries Carolyn Ciesla, Research Assistant Virginia Kerr, Digital Program Manager SourcesSources for this review include information publicly posted or obtained directly from the publisher; data collected by CRL staff and specialists at CRL libraries; and examination of the digital collection when possible. Other sources are noted where cited. CRL continues to gather additional information on this resource and to solicit critical assessment. 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