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* Note that EEBO moved to the ProQuest platform in 2020. This guide is now outdated in that it explains how to use a platform no longer operational. We hope to commission a new how-to guide for EEBO in its new platform. *
This guide to using EEBO was one of several guides written for students by students working under the supervision of
Early English Books Online (EEBO) is a database that allows users to browse through scans of early modern texts. EEBO contains digital facsimiles of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as numerous texts published between 1473 and 1700 that were printed in a variety of other countries, a total of over 125,000 titles. Many graduate scholars often frequent the site across many different disciplines including English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, and science (EEBO).
First, access EEBO via your university library website. Some libraries will list EEBO alphabetically under online resources
or include it under the databases
tab of the library site. Ask your reference librarian for help.
On the left-hand side menu of EEBO, there are five tabs available to you.
searchtab to find early books that match specific keywords and attributes.
author,
keywords,
title keywords,
bibliographic numbers, etc.).
searchto view your search results. Using the drop-down menu at the top of the page, you can sort results alphabetically by author or year, or chronologically by earliest date of publication or latest date of publication.
advancedin the upper-left corner of the site, you can perform an advanced search. By providing more search fields, the advanced search usually generates fewer and more relevant results. Search fields in the advanced search form include year or time period, language, country of origin, illustration type, UMI collection number, etc.
browsetab to view all collections written by a specific author.
look for.
abouttab helps answer any questions or solve any issues you may have while browsing EEBO. Open this tab to look at frequently asked questions or basic ideas regarding the site.
information resourcestab leads to a password protected section of the site for librarians and administrators. Students may ignore this tab.
what’s newtab to learn about recently added content, such as books, images, transcriptions, etc.