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This article lists selected digital resources available through the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. | This article lists selected digital resources available through the [[Folger Shakespeare Library]]. | ||
== | == Library catalogs == | ||
[http://shakespeare.folger.edu/ Hamnet], the Folger's online catalog, gives bibliographic information, copy-specific notes, and detailed information—often with links to images—of most of the items in the collection. | [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/ Hamnet], the Folger's online catalog, gives bibliographic information, copy-specific notes, and detailed information—often with links to images—of most of the items in the collection. | ||
== Finding aids and indices == | |||
[https://bard.folger.edu/microfilms/ Folger Library microfilms database] provides an easy way to search the Folger's microfilm collection so that readers may have some form of access to restricted or fragile materials. | [https://bard.folger.edu/microfilms/ Folger Library microfilms database] provides an easy way to search the Folger's microfilm collection so that readers may have some form of access to restricted or fragile materials. | ||
[http:// | [http://findingaids.folger.edu/ Folger Shakespeare Library online finding aids] guides users through the extensive manuscript collections with descriptions and lists of items. | ||
[http://firstlines.folger.edu/ The Union First Line Index of English Verse] enables researchers to locate poems held in seven prestigious collections in the US and UK, including the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Index provides a database of over 224,000 first lines of manuscript and printed verse. [mailto:firstlines@folger.edu firstlines@folger.edu] | |||
== Bibliographies == | |||
== E-Books == | |||
== Collections of papers == | |||
== Biographical resources == | |||
== Dictionaries == | |||
== Journals == | |||
== Bindings == | |||
[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/BINDINGS~1~1 Bindings Image Database] on LUNA features the many gorgeous bindings held in the Folger. | [http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/BINDINGS~1~1 Bindings Image Database] on LUNA features the many gorgeous bindings held in the Folger. | ||
[http:// | == Image resources == | ||
[http://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/FOLGERCM1~6~6 Digital Image Database] on LUNA contains high-quality, high-resolution images of a large number of Folger collection items. Users have the ability to store their preferred images in media groups, create presentations, and export images. | |||
[http://titania.folger.edu/impositor/ Impositor] is an online tool to automatically arrange digital images from the collection into simulated impositions (the laying out of pages into the formes of printed sheets). | |||
== Social media and other websites == | |||
[http://collation.folger.edu/ The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library] is the Folger's research blog featuring the world-class collection in the Library. | [http://collation.folger.edu/ The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library] is the Folger's research blog featuring the world-class collection in the Library. | ||
== Folger holdings and resources == | |||
[http://plre.folger.edu/ PLRE.Folger: private libraries in Renaissance England] complements the printed volumes of [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=56839 Private Libraries in Renaissance England] (PLRE), an ongoing editorial project that has published eight volumes since 1992 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (MRTS) series. | [http://plre.folger.edu/ PLRE.Folger: private libraries in Renaissance England] complements the printed volumes of [http://shakespeare.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=56839 Private Libraries in Renaissance England] (PLRE), an ongoing editorial project that has published eight volumes since 1992 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (MRTS) series. | ||
Revision as of 09:01, 18 September 2014
This article lists selected digital resources available through the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Library catalogs
Hamnet, the Folger's online catalog, gives bibliographic information, copy-specific notes, and detailed information—often with links to images—of most of the items in the collection.
Finding aids and indices
Folger Library microfilms database provides an easy way to search the Folger's microfilm collection so that readers may have some form of access to restricted or fragile materials.
Folger Shakespeare Library online finding aids guides users through the extensive manuscript collections with descriptions and lists of items.
The Union First Line Index of English Verse enables researchers to locate poems held in seven prestigious collections in the US and UK, including the Folger Shakespeare Library. The Index provides a database of over 224,000 first lines of manuscript and printed verse. firstlines@folger.edu
Bibliographies
E-Books
Collections of papers
Biographical resources
Dictionaries
Journals
Bindings
Bindings Image Database on LUNA features the many gorgeous bindings held in the Folger.
Image resources
Digital Image Database on LUNA contains high-quality, high-resolution images of a large number of Folger collection items. Users have the ability to store their preferred images in media groups, create presentations, and export images.
Impositor is an online tool to automatically arrange digital images from the collection into simulated impositions (the laying out of pages into the formes of printed sheets).
Social media and other websites
The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library is the Folger's research blog featuring the world-class collection in the Library.
Folger holdings and resources
PLRE.Folger: private libraries in Renaissance England complements the printed volumes of Private Libraries in Renaissance England (PLRE), an ongoing editorial project that has published eight volumes since 1992 in the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (MRTS) series.
Folger web archives
Read the article on Web archiving for an overview of the Folger's online web presence management.
Folger Shakespeare Library Websites and Social Media
Shakespeare Festivals and Theatrical Companies
William Shakespeare's 450th Birthday: Celebrations & Commentary
On-site subscriptions
These resources can only be accessed while logged in to the Folger network, unless readers can access them through their own institutions.
American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL)
American Council of Learned Societies Humanities E-Book (HEB): E-book records are searchable in Hamnet, with a link to ACLS full-text. All e-books are full-text searchable at ACLS site.
Bibliography of British and Irish History
Bibliography of Early Women Writers
British History Online: Includes Calendars of State Papers, Domestic and the Calendars of State Papers for Scotland and Ireland, along with the Calendar of Close Rolls.
British Literary Manuscripts Online
CAMIO: OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
Dictionary of National Biography Online: Limited to three users at a time. Please log off when finished.
Early English Books Online - Chadwyck-Healey (EEBO): Access to page images, and full-text search for TCP Phase 1.
Early English Books Online - Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP): Access to full-text search for TCP Phases 1 and 2.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO): Access to page images and some full-text search.
FirstSearch: OCLC Databases: Default database: WorldCat. Select the "Search in database" dropdown to select one of the following databases: ArticleFirst, ClasePeriodica, OCLC Ebooks, OCLC ECO, ERIC, GPO, MEDLINE, OAIster, PapersFirst, Proceedings, WorldAlmanac, WorldCat, WorldCatDissertations.
Iter: Gateway to the Renaissance
John Milton: A Bibliography (MRTS Online Series)
MLA International Bibliography
The Newdigate newsletters, Numbers 1 through 2100 (13 January 1673/4 through 11 June 1692)
Oxford Art Online (includes Grove Art Online)
Oxford English Dictionary Online
Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Perdita Manuscripts: Women Writers, 1500-1700
Shakespeare Quarterly (JSTOR): Back issues from 1950 through five years before the current issue.
Shakespeare Quarterly (Project Muse): Back issues for the most recent four years.