Digital resources at the Folger

This article lists selected digital resources available through the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Folger holdings and resources

Folger Library microfilms database
Digital Image Database
Bindings Image Database
Folger Library online finding aids
Union first line index of English verse
The Collation: a gathering of scholarship from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Impositor: 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

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.

Burke's Peerage Online became unavailable (temporarily, we hope) 1 September 2013 when the operating company changed ownership unexpectedly. The Folger's remaining subscription fee was refunded. We hope service will resume under the new ownership.

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