Early Modern Resources is a research portal for the early modern
period (c.1500-1800 CE). It only lists websites that are free to access
and focuses on high-quality resources that are suitable for advanced
research, study and teaching.
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Substantial digital editions of full text
transcriptions, usually searchable and/or downloadable; many have
accompanying page images
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High-quality image libraries of texts and documents,
usually with searchable metadata but not full text
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Collections of images of artworks, artefacts and maps
(again, usually with searchable metadata)
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Databases or calendars, mainly
containing abstracts or summary information about sources rather than
full transcriptions/images
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Anthologies: transcriptions of personally selected
collections of texts or single texts; may be full text or extracts;
probably more suited to teaching than in-depth research
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Bibliographies
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Open access e-journals
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Palaeography and transcription resources
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Dictionaries and language resources
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Useful tools
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Exhibits: multimedia presentations in which objects and
images are the primary focus, with varying degrees of textual analysis
or narrative
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Text essays: text-based (or primarily so) articles,
analyses and commentaries; relatively conventional and ‘print-like’ in
form
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Hypertext essays: more heavily textual than exhibits,
but created for the Web to exploit its hyperlinking and multimedia
capabilities