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Archival Sound Recordings is a British Library service which provides free online access to spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive. The resource was created with funding from the JISC.

Background information

The Archival Sound Recordings project to digitise recordings from the British Library Sound Archive and make them available online began in 2004 and concluded in March 2009. In this period the project digitised over 32,000 recordings, created detailed metadata to describe the origin and content of each item, cleared the rights for academic and (where possible) public use and put them up online. The British Library Sound Archive will continue to add further material to the website as it becomes available.

Accessing the recordings

Members of the public

Anyone with a Reader Pass can listen to any recording on the website from British Library reading rooms. In addition, where copyright permits, several thousand recordings can be played online from outside the Library.

UK Higher and Further Education

All recordings are available for streaming and download to members of licensed UK higher and further education institutions. Staff and students can access recordings by logging in with their Shibboleth or Open Athens password. Institution librarians can request a free license from the British Library