Bloomsbury History connects students, researchers and faculty with primary and secondary history resources including eBooks, audio, articles, museum objects, maps and more; bringing global history to life for all learners. It will help to link periods and topics, with theory, method and context.

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Which collections have moved to Bloomsbury History?

Bloomsbury Cultural History (BCH)

Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method (BHTM)

Bloomsbury Medieval Studies (BMS): Core Collection, Medieval Clothing and Textiles, Medieval Life and Culture, Medieval Literature Aloud: Chaucer Studio Audio Collection, Medieval World Reference Library

How has our access to BCH/ BHTM/ BMS changed? Have redirects been set up?

If your institution has purchased or subscribed to BCH, BHTM or any BMS collections, you still have access to that content – the new home for these collections has just changed.

In order to support customers who have bookmarked the current URLs, for example in library catalogue systems or in reading lists, as well as search engines and discovery and indexing databases, we have set up URL redirects for all pages.

This will mean that links to content pages (e.g. to articles, books, cases, museums and exhibitions) and also links to Research and Learning resources will redirect to the corresponding page on the Bloomsbury History site.

Please note the redirects will live in our platforms indefinitely. DOIs will continue to point to the new platform too. This means that if you are using our MARC records (which include DOI URLs), you need not be concerned about the URLs. If you are using your own MARC records or are bookmarking pages using the OLD platform URLs, you are covered by the redirects.

However, we recommend you download the new set of MARC and KBART records. The new records have been shared with discovery partners, but the timing of availability of the updated records may vary due to third party processes.

Bloomsbury History is subscription sensitive. This means that if users are accessing via the institution they will only see content they have access to in search results, and only those collections will appear on some pages.

We use discovery partners, will these be impacted?

If you receive MARC records via our Discovery partners – Ex Libris, OCLC and EBSCO – you will not be required to take any action. The changes will automatically filter through based on the Collections that have been activated in your Discovery management platform of choice.

How will our personal accounts be affected?

Users can still log in to their personal accounts on Bloomsbury History.

However, we encourage users to re-save content in browser books marks as these may not have been retained in the move. Saved searches have also not been retained as the results will be different now and may include results from multiple products.

Will there be any changes to usage statistics (COUNTER reports)?

Now that BCH, BHTM and BMS have moved to Bloomsbury History, they no longer have their own URL/domain for COUNTER purposes. They are now databases within Bloomsbury History on the COUNTER 5 Database reports instead.

All BCH, BHTM and BMS COUNTER usage will now come via the Bloomsbury History COUNTER API key and any COUNTER 5 usage prior to the migration is available under a separate BCH, BHTM or BMS site entry.

Will there be any changes to EZProxy?

Any Bloomsbury History customers using EZProxy need to ensure that they have the Geoplugin stanza and the site stanza in their EZProxy config.txt. Existing customers should update their config.txt file with this information also.

EZProxy stanzas for Bloomsbury History are shown below. Please add this to your EZProxy config.txt:

Can institutions renew their subscriptions to BCH, BHTM and BMS collections?

Yes, they will still be available to purchase via subscription or perpetual access basis. In addition we now have more flexible options for BCH and BHTM.

All BCH sets are now available on a set by set basis as well as the complete collection.

BHTM is available as a whole (core collection) or in smaller collections focused on

If you have any questions, please get in touch with your local representative:

• Americas: OnlineSalesUS@bloomsbury.com
• UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia: OnlineSalesUK@bloomsbury.com 
• Australia and New Zealand: OnlineSalesANZ@bloomsbury.com