This is the Bodleian Libraries' own published history of themselves, hosted on the University of Oxford's official visitor information website. As an institutional self-account, it is a reliable source for the library's own account of its founding and institutional history. Its limit is that it is written by the institution about itself rather than by an independent historian, so a claim about a specific contested episode in the library's history benefits from an independent scholarly account alongside this self-account.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the library's own reliable institutional account of its founding and history, hosted on the university's official site. NotesThe Bodleian Libraries' own history of themselves; an institutional self-account, not an independent scholarly history.
Citation
AuthorBodleian Libraries
PublisherUniversity of Oxford
URLhttps://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/plan-your-visit/history-bodleian
Source TypeInstitutional
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 15 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Organizations, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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