* 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 This guide is now outdated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 Dr. Kristen A. Bennett. These how to resources for conducting digital, archival, and worldwide library research across
topics in early modern English literature were created by undergraduate students in
the Spring 2014, ENG 304 class, Subversion and Scandal in Early Modern Print Culture with the help of the Faculty Initiatives in Technology grant at Stonehill College. Dr. Bennett and her students kindly gave MoEML permission to republish their guides.
Click here for guides to Early Broadside Ballad Archive, the Folger Digital Image Collection, Project Gutenberg, and the Internet Shakespeare Editions. To see the guides in their original context, along with other materials, visit the
English 304 blog.
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.
1. Search
Open the search tab to find early books that match specific keywords and attributes.
If you are looking for a specific book, enter the information you have about the book
into the corresponding search fields (e.g., author,keywords,title keywords,bibliographic numbers, etc.).
Once you have completed the search form, press search to 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.
By clicking advanced in 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.
2. Browse
Open the browse tab to view all collections written by a specific author.
Type in the author’s name, or the first few letters of it, and press look for.
Once you have found the text you want, click on the first paper icon (
) to see record information about the text, including the title, author, date, and
notes. Click on the camera icon (
) to see full-size images of the text, starting with the first page. Click on the
ink dropper icon (
) to see illustrations in the text, including portraits and charts. Click on the second
paper icon (
) to see a transcription of the text, if available. Finally, click on the camera/paper
icon (
) to see thumbnails for each page of the text.
3. About EEBO
The about tab 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.
4. Information Resources
The information resources tab leads to a password protected section of the site for librarians and administrators.
Students may ignore this tab.
5. What’s New
Open the what’s new tab to learn about recently added content, such as books, images, transcriptions,
etc.
Stonehill College Learning Community 304 Spring 2014 Students Stonehill
College Learning Community 304 Spring 2014 Students. How to Use Early English Books Online (EEBO).The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 30 Jun. 2021, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/EEBO_guide.htm.
Chicago citation
Stonehill College Learning Community 304 Spring 2014 Students Stonehill
College Learning Community 304 Spring 2014 Students. How to Use Early English Books Online (EEBO).The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 6.6. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed June 30, 2021. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/6.6/EEBO_guide.htm.
APA citation
Stonehill College Learning Community 304 Spring 2014 Students Stonehill
College Learning Community 304 Spring 2014 Students. 2021. How to Use Early English Books Online (EEBO). In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 6.6). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/6.6/EEBO_guide.htm.
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Programmer, 2018-present. Junior Programmer, 2015-2017. Research Assistant, 2014-2017.
Joey Takeda was a graduate student at the University of British Columbia in the Department
of English (Science and Technology research stream). He completed his BA honours in
English
(with a minor in Women’s Studies) at the University of Victoria in 2016. His primary
research interests included diasporic and indigenous Canadian and American literature,
critical theory, cultural studies, and the digital humanities.
Joey Takeda authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
Data Manager, 2015-2016. Research Assistant, 2013-2015. Tye completed his undergraduate
honours degree in English at the University of Victoria in 2015.
Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–present. Associate Project Director, 2015–present.
Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander
comes
to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge
digital humanities project at the University of
Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union
catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth
centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the
curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare
Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on
paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor.
She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts,
and is
interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these
materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler,
Kim
has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able
to bring
her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.
Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director
of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer
Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of
Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A
Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If
You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and
Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies,
Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan
Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance
Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book
chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early
Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage,
The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre
Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching
Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity
in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the
Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early
Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern
English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names:
Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making
Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking
Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies
(Routledge, 2018).
Janelle Jenstad authored or edited the following items in MoEML’s bibliography:
Jenstad, Janelle and Joseph Takeda. Making the RA Matter: Pedagogy, Interface, and Practices.Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2018. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Building a Gazetteer for Early Modern London, 1550-1650.Placing Names. Ed. Merrick Lex Berman, Ruth
Mostern, and Humphrey Southall. Bloomington and
Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 2016. 129-145.
Jenstad, Janelle. The
Burse and the Merchant’s Purse: Coin, Credit, and the Nation in Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody.The
Elizabethan Theatre XV. Ed. C.E. McGee and A.L.
Magnusson. Toronto: P.D. Meany, 2002. 181–202.
Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. The City Cannot Hold You: Social Conversion in the Goldsmith’s
Shop.Early Modern Literary Studies 8.2 (2002): 5.1–26..
Jenstad, Janelle. The Gouldesmythes Storehowse: Early Evidence for
Specialisation.The Silver Society Journal 10 (1998): 40–43.
Jenstad, Janelle. Lying-in Like a Countess: The Lisle Letters, the Cecil
Family, and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside.Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 34 (2004): 373–403. doi:10.1215/10829636–34–2–373.
Jenstad, Janelle. Public
Glory, Private Gilt: The Goldsmiths’ Company and the Spectacle of Punishment.Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society. Ed.
Anne Goldgar and Robert Frost. Leiden: Brill, 2004. 191–217. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Smock
Secrets: Birth and Women’s Mysteries on the Early Modern Stage.Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. Ed. Katherine
Moncrief and Kathryn McPherson. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007. 87–99. Print.
Jenstad, Janelle. Using
Early Modern Maps in Literary Studies: Views and Caveats from London.GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place. Ed.
Michael Dear, James Ketchum, Sarah
Luria, and Doug Richardson. London: Routledge, 2011. Print.
Stow, John. A SVRVAY OF
LONDON. Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne estate, and description
of that Citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow Citizen of London. Also an
Apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that Citie, the
greatnesse thereof. With an Appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ &
nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the
second. Ed. Janelle Jenstad and
the MoEML Team. MoEML. Transcribed.
Kristen Abbott Bennett has been a MoEML pedagogical partner and module mentor; she is now Assistant Director, Pedagogy. She is an Assistant Professor
in the English Department of Framingham State University, where she teaches classics, medieval and early modern British literature, and digital
humanities. In addition to her contributions to MoEML as a guest editor, Dr. Bennet
is the editor of Conversational Exchanges in Early Modern England (1549-1640), and has published articles on digital pedagogy, Nashe, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and
other topics. She is the Director of The Kit Marlowe Project and has served on the scholarly advisory committee for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s
Digital Anthology of Early Modern Drama project, and on the editorial board of This Rough Magic: A Peer-Reviewed, Academic, Online Journal Dedicated to the Teaching
of Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
Roles played in the project
Guest Editor
Kristen A. Bennett is mentioned in the following documents:
Programmer at the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (HCMC).
Martin ported the MOL project from its original PHP incarnation to a pure eXist database
implementation in the fall of 2011. Since then, he has been lead programmer on the
project
and has also been responsible for maintaining the project schemas. He was a co-applicant
on
MoEML’s 2012 SSHRC Insight Grant.
Student contributors enrolled in Learning Community 343: Pop
Culture and Bibliodigigogy in Early Modern England at
Stonehill College in Spring 2014, working under the guest editorship of Kristen Abbott Bennett.
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