Trial available until 29th February 2008.
From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.
They cover many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
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27 February, 2008 at 6:21 pm |
This is the most useful and important database for early modern scholars – of which there are 4 in the discipline of English, with 4 RHD students in the field at present. We would be over the moon if the library subscribed to it – it would facilitate our research, save expensive reseearch trips, and give us access to the most valuable electronic resource (in terms of scope – it literally contains almost all early modern books published in the period) in our field. We have a concentration of researchers in this field that rivals larger universities (including 2 convenores of an ARC funded network in Early Modern Women’s Writing), but we do not yet have access to the same resources: this would redress that imbalance and strengthen our standing as a national centre in this area.