E-Resources & Databases

Some of the following databases, often used by the RBSCD librarians, may be helpful in your research. Several of the databases below are full text, and full text searchable. Many of these databases are also available at state and research universities (which are open to the general public.)

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    Early American Imprints, Series I Evans Full-text of more than 36,000 printed works covering American history and literature. Contains a wide range of genres, including advertisements, ballads, broadsides, cookbooks, grammars, maps, memoirs, novels, prayer books, prospectuses, sermons, songs, textbooks, trade catalogues, and travel literature.
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    Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw Shoemaker Shaw-Shoemaker Early American Imprints provides the full-text to over 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides covering all aspects of American life in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. The database covers westward expansion, the development of American arts, the progression of American political thought, as well as published reports and the works of many European authors reprinted for the American public.
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    Sabin Americana Sabin Americana contains books, pamphlets and other documents about society, politics, culture, religious beliefs, and contemporary opinions for North, Central and South America, the Arctic and Antarctica and the West Indies.
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    Early English Books; EEBO EEBO contains digital images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. EEBO ranges from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
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    ECCO and ECCO Part II ECCO and ECCO Part II contains digital images of over 150,000 books, broadsides, pamphlets, sermons, sheet music, and ephemera published during the 18th Century. ECCO includes the full text of many significant English-language and foreign-language titles (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, Welsh, and others) printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of works from the Americas. Contains material on the whole of…
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    Early European Books European-wide project traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins to 1700. The Early European Books (EEB) resource is set to encompass all European printed material, and material printed in European languages, from the early modern period.
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    HathiTrust HathiTrust is a digital repository for the nation's great research libraries that brings together the immense collections of its partner institutions.
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    Internet Archive The Internet Archive (IA) is a nonprofit organization with the mission to provide “universal access to knowledge.” IA provides free access to collections of digitized materials, including millions of books; archived websites; software applications and games; music; movies and videos; and moving images. Projects include OpenLibrary external, a catalog with more than 20 million online edition records and access to 1.7 million scanned versions…
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    Book History Online The "BHO" is an international bibliography in the field of book and library history. It provides a comprehensive survey of all scholarly publications written from a historical perspective. Included are monographs, articles and reviews dealing with the history of the printed book, its arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, its economic, social and cultural environment, as well as its production, distribution, preservation and description. BHO…
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    Rare Book Hub Rare Book Hub is a web-based resource for those who deal in, deal with and/or collect books and related material. Our primary free community building tools are Rare Book Monthly, the most widely read periodical in the book collecting field, and Auction Search, the most effective search tool ever developed for the book auction field.
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    Text Creation Partnership The Text Creation Partnership (TCP) creates standardized, accurate XML/SGML encoded electronic text editions of early print books. TCP transcribes and marks up the text from the millions of page images in ProQuest's Early English Books Online (EEBO), Gale Cengage's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), and Readex's Evans Early American Imprints (Evans). This work, and the resulting text files, are jointly funded and owned by…