Digital resources at the Folger
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This article lists selected digital resources available through the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Folger holdings and resources
- 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.
- 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.
- Bindings Image Database on LUNA features the many gorgeous bindings held in the Folger.
- Folger Shakespeare Library online finding aids guides users through the extensive manuscript collections with descriptions and lists of items.
- Union first line index of English verse: 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. While the materials date predominantly from the 16th and 17th centuries, the database includes verse from the 13th through 19th century. Union First Line Index lists poems held in the Bodleian Library, Beinecke Library, British Library, Folger Shakespeare Library, Harvard University, Huntington Library, and the University of Leeds, as well as other institutions. The database is searchable by numerous fields, including keyword, first line, last line, author, title, repository and item shelfmark.Questions or comments? Email us at firstlines@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.
- 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).
- 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.
- American National Biography
- Archive Grid
- 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
- Burke's Peerage and Gentry
- CAMIO: OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
- Cecil Papers
- 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)
- Literary Manuscripts Online: 17th and 18th Century Poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
- 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.
- State Papers Online, 1509 - 1714
- Virginia Company Archives
- Women Writers Online
- World Shakespeare Bibliography