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Online Resources . From Oxford University Press. This presentation gives a brief description of Electronic Enlightenment . It tells you: what Electronic Enlightenment is; how it can help you; how to look for information in it. The presentation will take about 4 minutes.

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  1. Online Resources From Oxford University Press

  2. This presentation gives a brief description of Electronic Enlightenment. • It tells you: • what Electronic Enlightenment is; • how it can help you; • how to look for information in it. • The presentation will take about 4 minutes.

  3. Electronic Enlightenment is a scholarly research project of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. It presents a unique online collection of letters written by people (famous and not so famous) from 1619 to 1890.

  4. EE offers unrivalled access to the correspondence networks of the greatest thinkers and writers of the 17th to 19th centuries, their families, friends, bankers, bakers, poets, booksellers, patrons, publishers and more... It provides fully searchable, scholarly, full-text transcriptions of letters... ... and we are adding images of original letters, envelopes, and seals.

  5. There are lots of additional materials, such as maps, lesson plans and images.

  6. The resource gives online access to over 60,000 letters from over 50 critical editions. You can cross-search letters from more than 7,400 writers, scientists, philosophers, politicians, political thinkers and others. • EE contains letters in 11 different languages including: English, French, Dutch and Italian. • There is an expanding network of links to over 50 additional online resources, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biographyand the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.

  7. There are several ways of exploring the letters. • You can: • browse by decade • • browse by name • • browse by location.

  8. You can also use the search form. innoculation

  9. Information about the writer and recipient is found in the left column… • …as well as information about the letter, notes…

  10. …and biographical notes on the writer and recipient. • Note that you can also see the parent document of a translated letter… • …and a link to the Oxford English Dictionary.

  11. Many biographies are also linked to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

  12. Further help • This demonstration shows just a small part of what you can do with Electronic Enlightenment. • If you want to find out more, you can • visit the site • read about the site • look for a live online demo • email us at onlinemarketing@oup.com

  13. You can see similar presentations on other Oxford University Press online resources in the Librarian Resource Centre www.oup.com/uk/academic/online/librarians

  14. For further information about all online resources from Oxford, and to request institutional free trials and price quotations please contact your library supplier or Oxford University Press: Online Products, Oxford University Press Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP onlineproducts@oup.com +44 (0) 1865 353705 +44 (0) 1865 353308

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