WISER: HumanitiesEarly printed materials part II

Isabel D. Holowaty, History Librarian

Today

• Further EEBO & ECCO• Introducing new resources:

• Making of the Modern World• Early American Imprints I, 1639-1800 (Evans)

• Demonstrations• Hands-on• Questions

Early printed materials online

• Alternative to consult print• Locate editions not held locally• Information resource & primary source materials

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

• Major collection of early printed materials (125,000+ works)• Includes works printed in UK and North America, and works in English printed elsewhere, 1473-1700• Includes works listed in STC and Wing• Bibliographic tool & digital library

Advanced EEBO functionality

• Search for variant spellings• Searches for maps, illustrations, portraits, etc.• Subject searches• Search by ESTC reel no. • Search & browse English Civil War material (Thomason Tracts)

Variant spelling

Helps deal with early modern spelling murder = murther murdre murdir mvrder so foul and fair a day = so foule and faire a day

Helps deal with typographical variantsv for u j for i or y y for i or j w for vv or uu s for f Julius Caesar = Iulius Cæsar Ivlivs Cæsar

Wildcards / truncation

* (any number of characters at the end of a word) faith* = faith faiths faithful faithfully

? (one character within a word or at the end)wom?n = woman women

Note: conventions may change from resource to resource.

Demo

EEBO TCP (Text Creation Partnership)

25,000 texts converted into fully-searchable text• More accurate searching & variant spelling• Limiting searches to titles, headings, notes, stage directions, captions, acts, verses, etc. • Browse by hierarchically structured content, e.g. titles, sections, chapter headings, etc.• Browsable index including variant spelling

Demo

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)• Major collection of early printed materials & primary sources• Includes English and foreign language titles printed in the UK, and many works from the Americas, 1701-1800• Full text searching is possible

Advanced ECCO functionality

Fuzzy searchesSearches for maps, illustrations, portraits, etc.Search printed indexesSearch by ESTC no.

Fuzzy searches

To retrieve near matches on a term if spelling is approximateLow fuzzy search (very near match)

e.g. harbour = harbor

High fuzzy search (very broad matches)e.g. harbour = harbor harper etc.

Demo

Making of the Modern World(MOMW)• Digital Library of 61,000 + titles based on Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature• Works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850, esp. on commerce, finance, social conditions, politics, trade and transport. • good presence of European publications

Advanced MOMW functionality

Fuzzy searchesSearches for maps, illustrations, portraits, etc.Search subjects, incl. people or places as subjectsSearch & browse

Demo

Early American Imprints I, 1639-1800 (Evans)• Digital Library of 37,000+ imprints from the American Bibliography by Charles Evans • Embraces every aspect of life in 17th & 18th century America

history, literary, religion, witchcraft, agriculture, foreign affairs, temperance, etc.

• Genre of material is very wide-ranging printed books, pamphlets, broadsides, advertisements, chapbooks, diaries, gazetteers, hymnals, wills, etc.

Advanced Evans functionality

Boolean & proximity searchesExcellent browsing options by genre & subjectHistory of printing section

Demo

Further help

Contact library staff, esp. your subject librarianand Duke Humfrey’s staff

http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/libraries/librarians

Contact OULS eResources helpdesk for technical problems

eresources@ouls.ox.ac.uk

Questions?

Demonstration

Hands-on