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[edit] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(OXNB)

What it can help you do:

• Provide a sense of the historical context in which the author worked.
• Learn about the author's life and personal and political factors that may have impacted his/her work.
• Provide you with "Sources" to help get you started in your research.
• Link you to "Themes" related to your author.

OXNB

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[edit] British Periodicals From The 18th Century

What they can help you do:

• Provide information about the author that was published during or shortly after his/her life.
• Provide historical context for life and work (e.g. What was happening the first time School For Scandal was performed?)
• Provide you with special information that can help further your research (e.g. variant spellings: Lennox and Lenox; Quixote and Quixotte)

Ways to access British periodicals from the 18th Century:

Microfilm:

• English Literary Periodicals: microfilm PR 1 .E54, Guide
• Early English Newspapers: Call numbers vary by newspaper title, guide PN 5113 .E262
• Burney Collection: microfilm PN 5113 .E26

18th Century Periodicals On Microfilm

Digital:

Historical Newspapers Online: Covers the Times of London full text from 1800-1870.

Historical Newspapers Online

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[edit] Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

What it can help you do:

All of the features provided by 18th Century periodicals PLUS

• Find multiple editions of an author's work.
• Find other, lesser known, works by an author.
• Find other works inspired in some way by the author you are researching.
• Find that your author subscribed to certain publications.

ECCO

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[edit] JSTOR

What it can help you do:

• Find modern (as opposed to 18th Century) scholarly articles, recent research, and brief reviews of books on you topic.
• Full text journal articles.
• OCR'd for full text search capability.

JSTOR

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[edit] Nineteenth-century Collections Online (NINES)

What it can help you do:

• Clue you in to important Internet resources.
• Help you conduct your research against several databases simultaneously (federated searching).
• Help you find resources that the Library may not own, but you can request through Interlibrary Loan.

NINES

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