Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, and the Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education (ABES) in France have signed a new national licence agreement. The deal will enable all research and educational institutions throughout France and French territories to access Early English Books Online (EEBO).
The agreement will provide researchers with access to digitised pages from more than 125,000 early printed books, transforming research into the early modern period. It also includes 25,000 fully searchable editions of texts produced by the EEBO Text Creation Partnership, enabling end-users to trace the usage of words and phrases across more than two centuries of printed texts.
ProQuest's database of literary and historical classics from the pre-1700 period is reportedly considered the seminal research resource for early modern scholarship. Users in France will access the works through the dedicated EEBO interface, which allows the content to be precision searched by keyword, author, title, or subject. Users can also create Boolean queries and limit searches to specific sources, languages, or collections. Content from the Text Creation Partnership includes searchable, ASCII full-text versions of 25,000 of the documents. Further, the inclusion of MARC records will provide seamless links from the library's OPAC to corresponding images in EEBO.
The agreement is seen as the culmination of a long-standing relationship between ProQuest, the academic and library communities in the social sciences and humanities in France, and the national consortia Couperin, begun in 2002.
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