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Overview
British Online Archives: Colonial and Missionary Records 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).
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Full Text Linking
BOA supports the OpenURL Framework. All metadata is provided in XML format.
Federated Searching
BOA is working towards federated searching.
Metadata Standards
BOA complies with the Dublin Core standard.
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MARC 21 records available on request from the publisher.
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Searches can be made at both a basic and advanced level. Further information can be found on the BOA homepage: http://www.britishonlinearchives.com/
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Usage Statistics
BOA is in the process of implementing COUNTER compliant usage reports. In the meantime usage statistics will be supplied to the institution upon request.
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Authentication is currently via IP address. OpenAthens and UK Access Management Federation authentication will be implemented early in 2012.
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BOA complies with WCAG.
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Collection Content
British Online Archives: Colonial and Missionary Records 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 contains the following titles:
| COLLECTION NAME | # OF IMAGES |
| America in records from colonial missionaries, 1635-1812 | 33,927 |
| 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 Missionary Society 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 |
| Canada, between the US and Empire, 1883-1904: in the papers of the Governor-General | 14,960 |
| Antigua, slavery and emancipation in the records of a sugar plantation, 1689-1907 | 25,431 |
| Canadian records in the USPG archive, 1722-1952 | 56,997 |
| Black Schools' in Canada, America and the Bahamas, 1701-1900 | 24,547 |
| The Middle East, its division into countries and the creation of Israel, 1879-1919 | 4,860 |
| The Indian papers of Colonel Clive and Brigadier-General Carnac, 1752-1774 | 24,505 |
| Australia in records from colonial missionaries, 1808-1967 | 18,615 |
| Indian and Sri Lankan records from colonial missionaries, 1770-1931 | 84,424 |
| New Zealand & Polynesian records from colonial missionaries, 1838-1958 | 9,221 |
| Tanzania and Malawi in records from colonial missionaries, 1857-1965 | 44,754 |
| The Indian papers of the 4th Earl of Minto | 43,747 |
| African Blue Books, 1821-1953 / Colonial Africa in official statistics, 1821-1953 | 218,208 |
| Colonial women missionaries of the Committee for Women's Work, 1861-1967 | 180,692 |
| South Africa in records from colonial missionaries, 1819-1900 | 37,905 |
| Gambia under colonial rule, in Government reports, 1881-1966 | 22,626 |
| Annual departmental reports relating to Southern Rhodesia, 1897-1980 | 98,500 |
| Annual departmental reports relating to the Gold Coast and Togoland, 1843-1957 | 57,396 |
| Annual departmental reports relating to Kenya, 1903-1963 | 60,068 |
| Annual departmental reports relating to Nigeria and the British Cameroons, 1887-1960 | 81,552 |
| Colonial Law in Africa, 1808-1919 | 96,534 |
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