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Early English Books Online (Chadwyck-Healey)    [Click to Connect to Resource]
Link to this Resource:http://www.lib.jmu.edu/resources/connect.aspx?id=2696&s=137
Description:Early English Books Online™, 1475-1700 (EEBO) provides digital access to more than 100,000 literary and historical classics. You can view images that accurately reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions.  Early English Books Online contains images of works by such authors as Malory, Spenser, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, and Galileo. The database also includes musical exercises by Henry Purcell, novels by Aphra Behn, and prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars, and many other primary resources. Over 22 million pages will be available for searching and viewing.  Users  can view complete, digitized images of original pages from all the works in the database and even manipulate them by zooming in and out or printing pages one at a time.
Coverage:1475 - 1700
Resource Type:Database
Available To:JMU
No. of Simultaneous Users:Unrestricted
Full Text?:Yes
Linked Full Text?:Yes
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Types of information you can find with this resource:
Books / Book Chapters
Primary Sources
Subjects covered by this resource:
(1100-1500) Middle English
(1500-1700) Early Modern
16th Century Literature
17th Century Literature
A - Z (Index)
British & Irish History
British Literature
Early Modern History (1450-1700)
History
Literature
Philosophy and Religion
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