Research Guides: ENGLISH_397-0: Early (&) Modern Social Media (Fall): Primary Source Databases

Early Modern Guide

Images from EEBO: Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesle Date: 1648

The new help to discourse or, Wit, mirth, and jollity. intermixt with more serious matters Date: 1680

Early English Books Online EEBO
Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 - 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."

Useful tags for searching EEBO include Subjects: ballads, commonplace books, handbooks vademecums...

English Broadside Ballad Archive
Folger Library Digital Image Collection (LUNA)
Offers online access to over 100,000 images from the Folger Shakespeare Library, including books, theater memorabilia, manuscripts, and art. Users can show multiple images side-by-side, zoom in and out, view cataloging information when available, export high-resolution images up to 1536 pixels, and construct persistent URLs linking back to items or searches.

I have used MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY to find scholarly materials

Yes: 3 votes (25%)

No: 9 votes (75%)

Total Votes: 12

Before this class I had searched a full-text database of primary resources like EEBO and EBBA

Yes: 7 votes (58.33%)

No: 5 votes (41.67%)

Total Votes: 12

I have requested materials through interlibrary loan

Yes: 6 votes (50%)

No: 6 votes (50%)

Total Votes: 12

This is my first literature course that required outside research

Yes: 2 votes (16.67%)

No: 10 votes (83.33%)

Total Votes: 12

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