English advice manuals online at Rutgers: a partnership in a new course using digital books and Web technology

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Pleas'd By a Newe Inuention?: Assessing the Impact of Early English Books Online on Teaching and Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder

“…Jantz and Bell also discuss the improved accessibility and convenience EEBO offers by making rare materials available to students in electronic form and emphasize the importance of faculty-librarian collaboration in making the most of important library resources for teaching. 8 The only article-length publication to address EEBO's efficacy as a research resource is William P. Williams' and William Baker's evaluation of databases of early modern English materialthe print bibliographies, ESTC, and EEBO. The authors consider EEBO's main advantages to be greater accessibility to images of the originals and the ability to do keyword and subject searches; they also noted printing was less expensive and downloading easy.…”