B) Other electronic databases
Chadwyck-Healey/ProQuest databases:
- well-edited collections of prose texts from Early Modern English to the early 20th century
British English | American English | |
Fiction
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Early English Prose Fiction (16th & 17th c.) |
Early American Fiction |
Eighteenth-Century Fiction | ||
Nineteenth-Century Fiction | ||
Drama
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English Prose Drama | American Drama |
- available through DBIS: enter name of database as search word
- technical tips: Chadwyck-Healey instructions
Early English Books Online (EEBO):
- scanned page images of about 125.000 books in English printed between 1473 and 1700
- (normally) does not (yet) permit full text searches; search function limited to bibliographical information and front matter
- (temporary?) access to full text of 25.000 books
- available through DBIS: http://rzblx10.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/detail.php?bib_id=ub_ba&colors=&ocolors=&lett=fs&titel_id=633
- instructions for use: EEBO tutorial
America's Historical Newspapers:
- collection of newspapers printed in the USA 1690-1922
- scanned article images
- full text searches possible; searchword is highlighted for easier retrieval
- available through DBIS: http://rzblx10.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/detail.php?bib_id=ub_ba&colors=&ocolors=&lett=f&titel_id=8940
Shakespeare, Complete Works:
- contains a scholarly edition of the English text, a German translation, facsimiles of First Folio and a transcription of the First Folio
- full text searches possible
- available through DBIS: http://rzblx10.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/detail.php?bib_id=ub_ba&colors=&ocolors=&lett=fs&titel_id=883
Middle English resources:
- Middle English Compendium (University of Michigan): http://rzblx10.uni-regensburg.de/dbinfo/detail.php?bib_id=ub_ba&colors=&ocolors=&lett=f&titel_id=1732
- Database of Middle English Romance (University of York): http://www.middleenglishromance.org.uk/
Collections of electronic texts online:
- Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Oxford Text Archive: http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/
- Open Library: http://openlibrary.org/
- ManyBooks: http://manybooks.net/
- Google books: http://books.google.com/books
Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf: Dydd Sadwrn, 3 Hydref 2015, 8:20 PM