Re: Yale Joins Partnership for Early English Books Online (EEBO)

[Jeffry Larson <jeffry.larson@YALE.EDU>]

Ann,
Thanks for the description.
In the URL, the punctuation after www should be a dot, not a slash:
http://www.library.yale.edu/pubstation/databases/EEBO.html
-Jeffry Larson, RS&C

At 08:06 PM 2/2/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The Yale community now has full access to 96,000 works from Bell &
>Howell's Early English Books Online (EEBO).  EEBO is an image database
>based on the Bell & Howell (formerly UMI) microfilm collections (Early
>English Books 1475-1640 and Early English Books 1641-1700).  These film
>collections are, in turn, based on the Short Title Catalogues compiled by
>Pollard & Redgrave (STCI) and Donald Wing and his successors (STCII).  
>The later collection (1641-1700) also includes the Thomason Tracts.  B&H
>is busily trying to locate and film copies of the remaining works (the
>total is somewhere between 125,000 and 160,000 items).
>
>Yale Library has also joined a group of major research libraries in a
>partnership to support the creation of a full-text, fully searchable
>version of a significant portion of the EEBO image collection. The
>business plan calls for conversion of 25,000 texts over a five-year period
>with possible further conversion to be carried out after that time.  
>Working and advisory groups from the partner institutions will make
>decisions regarding content selection, presentation, and functionality.
>Each member library is contributing $10,000 per year for five years to
>realize the conversion effort.  As of January 2000, the number of partners
>had reached 43; the goal is 150 worldwide library members.  BHIL will
>match the partners' funds at a 20% level, for a $9million dollar project
>overall.  Joining the partnership achieved for the early adopters a
>significant discount for access to the digital collection.  The member
>libraries will share in the ownership of the digitized text files.
>
>The access/partnership arrangement was marketed to consortia, and Yale's
>participation in EEBO is via NERL, the NorthEast Research Libraries
>consortium.  Other NERL participants in EEBO include:  Columbia
>University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Rutgers University,
>Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, as well as Boston College
>and Vassar College.
>
>The key contact at Yale for this database is Margaret (Maggie) Powell
>(Margaret.Powell@yale.edu), Yale's Librarian for Literature in English and
>Commonwealth Studies. She serves as Yale's primary representative to this
>project.  For more information, and to try out EEBO, go to the "Databases"
>page on the Library Resarch Workstation and find EEBO in the alphabetic
>list of databases.  Or go directly to
>
>http://www/library.yale.edu/pubstation/databases/EEBO.html
>
>You will need to download a viewer for the image files; please contact
>your friendly local librarian or staffer if you need help initially
>in accessing the collection.
>
>
>Ann Okerson
>Associate University Librarian, collections and technical services
>Ann.Okerson@yale.edu