Abstract
This dataset, part of the Scissors and Paste Project (https://osf.io/nm2rq), describes instances of reprinting and text reuse (scissors-and-paste journalism) in British newspapers between 1800–1837. It was derived from the 19 th -Century British Library Newspapers, Part 1 digitised newspaper collection by using plagiarism detection software to identify instances of substantially similar text. It contains a series of manifests that describe a) instances of shared content b) the likely directionality of copying and c) which instances are evolutionary dead-ends and have no known reprints. It is comprised of 1,824 TSV files, divided into four directories, each representing one month between January 1800 and December 1837.
Highlights
Context Before 1837, electronic telegraphy was in its infancy and was not employed in the transmission of news content [1]
Newspapers within and beyond Britain engaged in scissors-and-paste journalism, wherein one newspaper copied, in part or in whole, material from other publications
The degree to which attribution was professionally expected is a matter of ongoing research, but even when attribution did take place, it was given unsystematically; sometimes newspapers listed the date and title of the original publication, rather than the one from which they had directly copied, while other times they offered only basic clues, such as ‘a London paper’ [5]
Summary
Context Before 1837, electronic telegraphy was in its infancy and was not employed in the transmission of news content [1]. (2) Methods Steps The Source Data The Georgian Reprints is derived from 226,507 pagelevel XML files from the 19th-Century British Library Newspapers, Part 1 collection [7]. Beals: Scissors and Paste transcriptions from 51 newspaper titles, regularised into 31 distinct publications, across 38 years. These levels were chosen by testing the Raw Matching Report from the year 1815 to remove as many false positives as possible while retaining all true matches.
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