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1st September 2010

This months updates see a complete overhaul of the Ultrapedia Library. All 128,975 documents have been manually reviewed, revised and checked for accuracy.

By removing obsolete or inconsistent data from the digitised version of the original publication, we are able to publish a more accurate, searchable representation.

As you browse through the library you will see the documents are (mostly) free of inaccuracies.

The level of accuracy is dictated by the age and condition of the original publication and the nature of OCR (Optical Character Recognition). Our aim is for quality rich content.

This brings the total documents in the Library to 128,975 with the total number of pages at 3,923,948 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 1,293,160.

Try these examples opposite to see whats in store.

New Outlook Magazine more...
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Volume 121-1919

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Volume 2-1909

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Volume 117-1917


Frasers Magazine more...
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Volume 15-1877

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Volume 74-1856

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Volume 61-1860


The Lawyers Reports Annotated more...
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Volume 15-1917

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Volume 29-1917

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Volume17-1917

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19th July 2010 - Wikipedia Federated Search

We're pleased to announce the introduction of Wikipedia federated searching to the Ultrapedia Library. What this means is that when you search the Ultrapedia Library for a given search term, the search results will also have an entry from Wikipedia at the top the the page.

Below are some example searches to help you get started and for you to try.

Tower Bridge London     Medieval Literature       Napoleon Bonaparte       Julius Caesar       The COLLISEUM

12th June 2010

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European Historical Collections

We've been busy working behind the scenes for the last few months. We want to bring the cream of the library to the surface in a natural manner, this equates to hands on work by a human rather than a computer, spending time reviewing and grading the library documents. The first pass is to remove documents that slipped through our filtering system, so we have removed 472 documents. The total documents in the library now stands at 135,555.

This months popular documents include:

16th April 2010
Library Updates

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A Pictorial History of France



1116 new documents were added to the Ultrapedia Library today.
For a full listing of todays updates click here

Topical books selected from todays updates include:  

This brings the total documents in the Library to 136,458 with the total number of pages at 4,301,630 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 596,237.
1st April 2010 - Scientific American Journal for the year 1900
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Scientific American Journal - 1900


Thirty issues of the Scientific American Journal from 1900, are online as a slideshow. Click here for slideshow.

Scientific American was a weekly journal of practical information on art, science, mechanics, chemistry and manufactures. Founded by Rufus M Porter in 1845, and taken over by Alfred Ely Beach and Orson Desaix Munn in 1846, remaining owned by Munn & Co until 1948.

It was published every Thursday morning at No. 11 Spruce Street, New York; Boston and Philadelphia. Each issue was published with two to five original engravings illustrative of New Inventions, Scientific Principles, and Curious Works and included stories covering Mechanical and other Scientific Improvements, Catalogues of Patents, Scientific Essays, Arts and Trade, and Improvements in Agricultural devices. In todays terms it was the Technology journal of the time.

Today Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the world's premier source for advances in science and technology and how they shape our world. You can visit them at the Scientific American Website.

We hope you enjoy these issues from the turn of the century - 1900 - one hundred and ten years ago!
28th March 2010 Library Updates

With spring in the air and summer not far away we've selected a few titles below for your reading pleasure; coming from the 1066 new documents added to the Ultrapedia Library.

For a full listing of todays updates
click here.

Topical books featured todays updates include:  
This brings the total documents in the Library to 135,450 with the total number of pages at 4,305,982 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 592,999.
1st March 2010 Library Updates

Today we added 7311 new documents to the Ultrapedia Library. Many are letters, lectures, journals, narratives and diaries from notable historical figures - they are a joy to read and explore. We hope you enjoy discovering them.

We also continue to clean up the Library and have removed a further 910 documents that had more than their fair share of recognition errors, leaving a crisper and more accurate representation of the original written work.

For a full listing of todays updates
click here.

Also featured in todays updates are:  

This brings the total documents in the Library to 134,386 with the total number of pages at 4,266,725 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 590,045.
2nd February 2010 Library Updates

January has been a busy month. Anyone who has spent time reading some of the millions of pages in the Ultrapedia Library will have noticed recognition errors and other 'noise' not really relevant to the text. As almost all of the original written works have been through many hands in their lifetime these errors occur for many reasons - one of which is marginalia. Check out the Ultrapedia Blog entry 'Recognising a Problem' for further explanation of recognition errors and why they occur.

Its a labour of love, as many of the documents are reviewed manually to clean up the errors, and its thanks to our dedicated team who are passionate about their craft, that more than 31,000 documents in the Ultrapedia Library have been updated and cleaned up, to leave a crisper and more accurate representation of the original written work.

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Featured in todays updates are:  


This brings the total documents in the Library to 128,016 with the total number of pages at 4,073,127 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 587,086.
8th January 2010 Library Updates

The New Year brings new Library updates. We have been busy in the run up to Christmas and New Year by dividing 1249 of the Books in the Library into 5607 Chapters and further edited the documents to remove some badly recognized characters and phrases. This results in cleaner reading, both in Quick View on the search results page and the downloadable PDF file, as well as swifter searches.

To summarize 5607 documents were added to the Library bringing the total number of documents to 127,283. We've also removed 1249 documents. With the new additions and the removed documents the library is now more fluid and refined, providing more targeted results and a more enjoyable read and reference source.

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Featured in todays updates are:  

This brings the total documents in the Library to 127,283 with the total number of pages at 4,088,388 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 586,656.
30th November 2009 Library Updates

4603 documents were added to the Library today bringing the total number of documents to 122,925. We've also removed 374 documents. With the new additions and the removed documents the library is now more fluid and refined, providing more targeted results and a more enjoyable read and reference source.

For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Featured in todays updates are:  

This brings the total documents in the Library to 122,925 with the total number of pages at 4,168,676 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 586,479.
14th November 2009 Library Updates

4007 documents were added to the Library today bringing the total number of documents to 118,411. For a full listing of todays updates click here.

Featured in todays updates are:  

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 118,411 with the total number of pages at 4,042,973 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 556,763.
    7th November 2009 Library Updates

    3315 documents were added to the Library today bringing the total number of documents to 114,642. For a full listing of todays updates click here.

    Featured in todays updates are:  


    This brings the total documents in the Library to 114,642 with the total number of pages at 3,979,172 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 549,300.
    1st November 2009 Library Updates

    8563 documents were added to the Library today bringing the total number of documents to 111,327. We've also removed 2179 redundant documents. With the new additions and the removed documents the library is now more fluid and refined, providing more targeted results and a more enjoyable read and reference source.

    For a full listing of todays updates click here.

    Featured in todays updates are:  

    Many Encyclopedias including: The American Edition of the British Encyclopedia      An Encyclopedia of Domestic Economy     Chambers Encyclopedia     The Military Encyclopedia

    You may also enjoy reading   
    Calcutta Review     The Catholic World     Elementary Geology     
    Old Paths and Legends of New England     Our Vanishing Wild Life

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 111,327 with the total number of pages at 3,916,135 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 541,554
    25th October 2009 Library Updates

    3619 documents were added to the Library today bringing the total number of documents to 104,943. For a full listing of todays updates click here.

    Featured in todays updates are:  

    Catalogue of Medieval Literature

    A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany

    A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Isaac Newton

    Catalogue of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters

    The Southwestern Reporter

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 104,943, with the total number of pages at 3,956,002 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 549,046
    13th October 2009 Library Updates

    We're pleased to announce that the Ultrapedia Library now boasts over 100,000 documents, after adding 2550 new documents to the Library today. For a full listing of todays updates click here.

    Featured in todays updates are:
    Americanized Delsarte Culture,    The Art of Silk Culture,    Art and Progress - Volume 3 - 1911,    Clamet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible,    The Moral Instructor    and additional issues of    The Southwestern Reporter

    All books with dual columns layouts are accented with a thumbnail coloured purple, while books with single colum layouts remain neutral in colour.
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                            Southwestern Reporter                                               The Moral Instructor

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 101,344 with the total number of pages at 3,881,617, and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 532,543

    7th October 2009 Library Updates

    5013 new documents have been added to the Library. For a full listing click here.

    Featured in todays updates are:
    Art & Progress,    Athletics for Physical Culture,    Botanical Abstracts,    The European War of 1916 covered in The New York Times Current History,    The History of the Atomic Theory from the Memoirs of Dr Dalton,    Eccentric Characters from the periodical Merrys Museum,     29th September 2009 Library Updates

    Today we added 3602 new documents to the library. For a full listing
    click here.

    Tree Culture, Florists Flower Culture, Fruits, Botantical Abstracts, Orchids, Napoleon Bonaparte, Precious Stones, Matter and Energy, Science, the Navy as well as more volumes of the Southwestern Reporter all feature in todays updates.

    Tree Culture      Botanical Abstracts      Orchids      Napoleon Bonaparte      Precious Stones      Matter and Energy      Science    The Navy       Southwestern Reporter       The Restoration of the Monarchy in France

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 93,781, with the total number of pages at 3,761,738 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 515,661.

    29/4/science&IW_FILTER_DATE_AFTER=20090930&IW_FILTER_DATE_BEFORE=20091007" rel="self">The Philosophical Magazine,    The Chautauquan,    The Lawyers Reports   and   The Overland Monthly.


    This brings the total documents in the Library to 98,794, with the total number of pages at 3,840,314 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 527,295

    29th September 2009 Library Updates

    Today we added 3602 new documents to the library. For a full listing click here.

    Tree Culture, Florists Flower Culture, Fruits, Botantical Abstracts, Orchids, Napoleon Bonaparte, Precious Stones, Matter and Energy, Science, the Navy as well as more volumes of the Southwestern Reporter all feature in todays updates.

    Tree Culture      Botanical Abstracts      Orchids      Napoleon Bonaparte      Precious Stones      Matter and Energy      Science    The Navy       Southwestern Reporter       The Restoration of the Monarchy in France

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 93,781, with the total number of pages at 3,761,738 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 515,661.

    23th September 2009
    Library Updates


    Today we added 5719 new documents to the library. For a full listing click here.

    Many more volumes of
    The Southwestern Reporter have been added today. First published in 1887, it is a publication compirsing of over 240 volumes that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law. Within these volumes are the then currrent decisions of the Supreme Courts of the south western states of the USA including Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Texas.

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 90,179, with the total number of pages at 3,700,619 and the total number of Bookmarks now standing at 506,624.

    15th September 2009
    Library Updates


    Today we added 2280 new documents to the library. For a full listing click here.

    The Southwestern Reporter is the publication featured in todays update. First published in 1887 it is a publication compirsing of over 240 volumes that contain judicial opinions from a selection of case law. Within these volumes are the then currrent decisions of the Supreme Courts of the south western states of the USA.

    This brings the total documents in the Library to 84,460, with the total number of pages at 3,640,307 increasing the Bookmarks by 51,231 - from 493,393 to 544,624.