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2 Online Resources From Oxford University Press

3 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.

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

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

6 www.e-enlightenment.com There are lots of additional materials, such as maps, lesson plans and images.

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

8 www.e-enlightenment.com browse by decade browse by name browse by location. There are several ways of exploring the letters. You can:

9 www.e-enlightenment.com innoculation You can also use the search form.

10 www.e-enlightenment.com Information about the writer and recipient is found in the left column… …as well as information about the letter, notes…

11 www.e-enlightenment.com …and a link to the Oxford English Dictionary. Note that you can also see the parent document of a translated letter… …and biographical notes on the writer and recipient.

12 www.e-enlightenment.com Many biographies are also linked to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

13 www.e-enlightenment.com 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.comonlinemarketing@oup.com

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

15 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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