2024-01-07
This is disastrous for researchers everywhere - anyone completing a time-sensitive project be it an author, PhD student, academic on a grant project, etc, etc. Please throw money at this UK gov to fix it - it is a critical resource for researchers worldwide.
Financial Times
Source: the British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October cyberattack that rendered most of its services inaccessible
Horrible as this story is, I am more shocked that GBP 6-7 M constitute a whopping 40% of the British Library's reserves. If that's the case, it's a wonder. A national treasure th...