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Over 300 On Demand customers have switched to our...

07 December 2015

On Demand's new DRM solution, DRM Lite, allows customers to open their orders on any device with no plug-ins

Over 50 universities are now benefiting from our E...

07 December 2015

In partnership with the CLA, British Library On Demand provides students with seamless access to content through their c...

British Library On Demand closures over the Christ...

02 December 2015

We will stop processing new orders from 02.30 on Thursday 24 December to 08.00 on Tuesday 29 December and then from 15.0...

British Library On Demand is now on Twitter

02 December 2015

Follow @ondemandBL for all the latest news and service updates from On Demand.

Old British Library On Demand ordering interface t...

28 September 2015

Following positive feedback about the new British Library On Demand ordering interface, it will become the only route fo...

Imaging Services prices are now simpler and fairer

14 August 2015

We’ve changed the way we charge for our services to make our pricing more transparent

British Library On Demand closes for August bank h...

04 August 2015

Information about On Demand service closures over the August bank holiday weekend

Listen to our latest news media podcast

23 July 2015

In our latest news media podcast Linda Stratmann discusses murder, mayhem and escaped elephants in the Illustrated Polic...

National Newspaper Building open

23 July 2015

New long-term home for UK national newspaper collection now holds 60 million newspapers in low oxygen storage

Talis Aspire Digitised Content launches with On De...

25 June 2015

Join us for a webinar with Talis to learn about ordering British Library content for your reading lists and course packs

A new look for document supply

18 June 2015

The British Library’s Document Supply Service has a new look and name, but what else has changed behind the scenes?

Almost half of On Demand orders now supplied direc...

17 June 2015

More electronic content and publisher agreements mean On Demand now supplies 45% of orders direct from digital

Open On Demand orders without plug-ins

17 June 2015

On Demand's new DRM solution, DRM Lite, allows customers to open their orders on any device

Unencrypted delivery coming soon

17 June 2015

Soon you'll be able to get plain PDFs from On Demand where publishers let us supply them

Summer 2015 at the British Library

21 April 2015

Cornelia Parker takes on Magna Carta as our season on democracy continues, a taste of Burning Man comes to the Library a...