Ways of Accessing EEBO(TCP) | heather froehlich

"On October 28, 2015, the Renaissance Society of America sent an email to all members announcing the demise of their previous partnership with ProQuest (now in control of ExLibris too). Their email to all of us, in full ... This is truly terrible news, especially for anyone whose institution did not/could not subscribe to the ProQuest interface ... Perhaps because the first set of TCP editions of the EEBO texts are now part of the public domain, this is supposed to be sufficient for scholars’ use. Of course, this is not true: the TCP texts are a facsimile of the EEBO images (themselves facsimiles of facsimiles). However inadequate the TCP texts are for someone without an EEBO subscription, I have been collecting a number of links for a number of years about how to access and use EEBO(TCP). Despite overturning this decision, the benefit of having all these resources listed together seems to justify their continued existence here. They are also available on my links page, but in the interest of accessibility, here they are replicated ..."