|
|
 |
||||||
 |
|
|||||
 |
||||||
Questions:
Answers:How do I subscribe to Early English Books Online? Early English Books Online ("EEBO") welcomes subscriptions from universities,
schools, and academic and public libraries. If you belong to such an
institution and would like to set up a free trial subscription, you
should ask your librarian to contact us by filling in the free trial
subscription request form. If you do not attend such an institution,
and depending on the area you live in, your public library may subscribe.
If they do not, we would be happy to set the library up with a free
trial at their request. The librarian or information officer may contact
us by filling in the free trial subscription form.
How do I download and print multiple pages in EEBO, or an entire document?You may download an entire book from EEBO, or a custom range of pages. On your list of results, or if you are viewing the Full Record or Document Images for an item, you will see a checkbox to "Add to your Marked List." Check that box, and then select the "Marked List" option from the black menu along the top of each page. On the Marked List page you will see a short citation for the item, and a PDF icon and link to "Download document images in PDF." If you click that link you will see two options to either download a page range or the entire document in PDF format. Wait a few moments while the pages are converted to PDF. When that is completed, please "confirm" that you want to download the file and then you will see an option to open it or save it. How do I cite a title from EEBO? When citing material from EEBO, it is important to remember to give
the publication details of the original print source as well as the
electronic version. You can view these in EEBO by clicking on the full
record icon (horizontal page) within the list of Search Results, from
within image or full text page views, or from a list of Author's Works.
Joseph Gibaldi's MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 5th ed.
(New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1999), deals
with citations of online sources in section 4.9.7., pp.195-96. EEBO
an online service to which libraries rather than individuals subscribe;
for this category, the MLA Handbook specifies the inclusion of the service's
name, the library (or other subscribing institution), the date of access,
and the URL of the item. Here is an example based on these guidelines:
How can I resize text on the screen? Text throughout the site (including navigation) is resizeable. Visually-impaired
users, Netscape users or Mac users may find increasing the text size
within their browser makes reading pages easier.
What is the Text Creation Partnership? How do I subscribe to it? The Universities of Michigan and Oxford, with the financial support
of ProQuest LLC and over a hundred member libraries
worldwide, are creating accurately keyboarded and SGML/XML encoded text
editions for 25,000 titles in the EEBO corpus. For students and scholars,
this enhances access to the content of thousands of historically significant
works, while retaining the cultural context of the original print representation
of the material.
How do I access EEBO full text? Where the full text of a title is available in EEBO, a full-text icon
(vertical page) will appear within your Search Results. Click on the
icon to access and read the full text (a re-keyed ASCII version of the
original document's page images). You can also find a list of authors
with works available in full text from the Browse page (select "Limit
to authors available in full text"). TCP members can also search the
full text from the University of Michigan's TCP
site.
Can I download material from EEBO?All the material published in EEBO is subject to copyright restrictions and includes a clear statement on each page informing users of who the copyright holder is. Much of this material is published electronically under license from the source library, and is intended solely for the use of members of institutions who subscribe to the service. The copyright restrictions are similar to those which apply to print publications: just as readers are permitted to photocopy short passages of books and journals, users of EEBO are permitted to download, print, save or email material for their individual use on the understanding that these copyright restrictions are adhered to. All further reproduction or distribution is prohibited without the written permission of ProQuest LLC, and, where applicable, the copyright holders of the source volume.
Must I obtain permission to reproduce images from EEBO? How? ProQuest LLC has copyright and other
intellectual property rights in EEBO. In addition, ProQuest LLC's agreements
with the owners of the materials reproduced in EEBO give us limited
rights which do not include reproduction of images outside of EEBO.
Accordingly, you must obtain permission to include images in books or
articles from both ProQuest LLC and the owner of
the material.
How do old spellings affect my searches?The searchable data in EEBO preserves faithfully the non-standard spellings that are characteristic of early modern texts. Thus the word virtue often appears as vertue in EEBO; a common variant of mutability is mutabilitie. The quickest and easiest way to find variant spellings of your search term(s) is to search with the Variant spellings box checked. If you type a search term in the Keyword(s) box and the Variant spellings box is checked when you submit your search, you will automatically retrieve all instances of your search term and its early modern variant forms present in EEBO. For example, if the box for Variant spellings is checked and you type the word murder in the Keyword(s) field, when you submit your search you will retrieve all occurrences of the word murder and its early modern variants murther, murdre, murdir and mvrder. The Variant spellings box appears on the Basic Search, Advanced Search and Periodicals Search screens and is checked by default. The Check for variants display, which is accessible via a link to the right of the Keyword(s) field, allows you to view all the related spellings of any term or terms you have entered. From this screen you can select specific variant forms to copy back into your search, allowing you to build a search query focussed on particular variant forms of your original term. The Variant spellings functionality in EEBO has been made possible by the CIC CLI Virtual Modernisation Project. Another way to search for variant spellings is to use single-character wildcards (?) and truncation operators (*) to broaden searches (type je?lo?s* to retrieve a number of variant forms of jealous and jealousy, for instance jealousie, jelowsye, jelousies and jealosies ). When typing a search expression that includes truncation and wildcard operators in this way, you should uncheck the Variant spellings and Variant forms boxes. You can also type the word you are looking for in the Keyword(s) or Title keyword(s) fields and then click the Select from a list link. You will then be able to scroll through and select from an alphabetical list of all the words, including all old spellings, represented in EEBO. Use the Boolean operator OR between multiple search terms to retrieve variants with a single search. Example
Typographical Variants Early modern typographical conventions mean that in pre-1700 texts certain characters are often used interchangeably. For instance, the characters j and i are often exchanged, with the word juniper occasionally appearing as iuniper, and Ireland as Jreland. Similarly, u often appears as a v, and vice versa, such that the word love often appears as loue, whilst usurper sometimes appears as vsurper. The letter w is occasionally represented by both vv and uu, with worthiness appearing as both vvorthines and uuorthines. In EEBO all of these variant forms are preserved exactly as they appear in the source text and are listed in the alphabetical word index on the Keyword(s) and Title keyword(s) lists (click Select from a list alongside the Keyword(s) and Title keyword(s) fields). When you search with the Variant spellings box checked, you will automatically retrieve instances of your search term(s) in which any of the following substitutions have taken place: v for uu for v j for i or y i for j or y y for i or j w for vv or uu s for f y for 3 (yogh) or z Thus a search for the term woman will retrieve forms of this word featuring variant typography such as vvoman and uuoman (along with other old spellings of woman such as womanne and vvoeman). Example
Text Creation Partnership keyboarded full-text versions of EEBO texts (which are accessible via EEBO to TCP member institutions) include non-standard characters such as thorn (þ) and eth (ð). For the purposes of searching, EEBO treats these characters exactly like their more standard equivalents, so that a search for the Keyword(s): thrittig will retrieve instances of þrittig, while searching for Keyword(s): broðre will retrieve occurrences of both broðre and brothre. Similarly, a search for the Keyword(s): Danae will retrieve occurrences of Danae, Danaë and Danäe (as will searching for either Danaë and Danäe). In the alphabetically arranged browse list for the Keyword(s) field (accessible by clicking select from a list >> to the right of the search field), non-standard characters are represented by their standard equivalents, such that þrittig is listed as thrittig. The character yogh (3) is captured in TCP transcriptions of EEBO texts, but is displayed in EEBO as y. Thus the word kny3t is rendered as knyyt on the EEBO Full Text display. For the purposes of searching, EEBO treats 3 as equivalent to y and z, so that a search for Keyword(s): knyyt is equivalent o a search for Keyword(s): kny&yogh;t or Keyword(s):knyzt. For further information, click Help in the top toolbar in EEBO. How much of EEBO is complete? What is the schedule for completion?As of December 2008, works from the following microfilm collections and units are available online:
What's coming next?
Why do some of the works in EEBO only have records available?Records for works in EEBO are made available as part of the service in advance of the document images for the works in question in order to help researchers identify the existence of a certain work, and locate it via the source library or the UMI microfilm collection. The production process for EEBO records/MARC records is quite separate from the image-manufacturing process. MARC records (from which EEBO Bibliographic records derive) are produced for the microfilm collection Early English Books (EEB) after they are filmed, and are required before new content can be digitised for inclusion in EEBO. Information about the status of both Early English Books Online and Early English Books, its microfilm source, is available in About EEBO. Alternatively, please feel free to use the Webmaster form to enquire about the status of a particular work in EEBO. Why are the default dates on the search page 1473 to 1900? I thought EEBO only contained works printed before 1700.The official dates of coverage for EEBO are 1473-1700, corresponding to the dates covered in the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing short title catalogues, and the Thomason Tract and Tract Supplement collections. However, there are a few hundred items in EEBO that were printed after 1700. Most of these are later reproductions or reprints of originals. Some are items that were erroneously dated and may have had their Wing numbers cancelled subsequent to being microfilmed. And some items overlap the centuries, such as A collection of several tracts and discourses written in the years 1677, to 1704 by Gilbert Burnet ... ; in three volumes, 1704. In addition, many of these items are one- or two-page broadsides and ballads that require more time to identify and scan for inclusion in EEBO, so because they fall outside of the project's parameters we will focus on finishing the materials up to 1700 first. |
