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Electronic Enlightenment

Subscription cycle: July 1 - June 30

Available Now! Electronic Enlightenment, a scholarly research project from the University of Oxford, offers unrivalled access to the web of correspondence between the greatest thinkers and writers of the 18th century and their families and friends, bankers and booksellers, patrons and publishers.

Online access to over 75,000 letters from over 50 critical editions, from leading scholarly and university presses, including Cambridge, Delaware, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Norstedts, Olschki, Oxford, Pickering & Chatto, Virginia Historical Society and the Voltaire Foundation.
Cross-search letters from more than 3,500 writers, scientists, philosophers, politicians, political thinkers and others, including Addison, Bentham, Boswell, Boyle, Catherine the Great, Mme du Châtelet, Defoe, Descartes, Ferguson, Flamsteed, Frederick the Great, Gustav III, Halley, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, Locke, Muratori, Newton, Pendleton, Pope, Price, Richardson, Rousseau, Smith, Steele, Sterne, Swift, Mrs Thrale, Voltaire, and the US First Federal Congress.

Unlimited access and simultaneous user pricing are available.

Ordering the Electronic Enlightenment: please complete the order form and license agreement, and fax them to Nylink at 518-432-4346, or email the forms to services[at]nylink.org.

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Features

• Search or browse all fields including author, recipient, date and location
• Cross-search over a quarter of a million scholarly annotations
• Additional indexes synchronize historical calendars and give access to information on manuscripts, archives and editions
• Get involved in content and connections: My EE lets you contribute or suggest new editions, manuscript or early-print images, from one letter to a thousand
• EE Study desk will let users keep a record of useful searches and search results, and links to material within Electronic Enlightenment and external websites
• EE Coffee-house will provide a space for moderated blogs for users to exchange ideas and discoveries with other users of Electronic Enlightenment
• DOIs (and static URLs) at the level of individual letter writers make it easy to link to Electronic Enlightenment directly from other resources
• Expanding network of links to other online resources, including the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment.
• The Electronic Enlightenment will be updated each year with further critical editions, including previously unpublished correspondences.

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