Electronic Enlightenment

Electronic Enlightenment 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.

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Unrivalled online access to 18th-century primary sources...

• Cross-search letters from more than 6,500 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, and Voltaire



• Online access to over 75,000 letters from the best critical editions will become available by the end of 2008, from leading scholarly and university presses, including California, Cambridge, Delaware, Duke, Edinburgh, Georgia, Johns Hopkins, Meiner, Norstedts, Olschki, Oxford, Pickering & Chatto, Royal Historical Society, Toronto, Virginia Historical Society and the Voltaire Foundation



• Explore correspondence of the First Federal Congress of the USA and the British Association for the Advancement of Science



• Original language editions - includes letters in French, German, and Italian as well as English



• Updated twice a year with further critical editions, including previously unpublished correspondences



• Cross-search over 200,000 scholarly annotations



• Expanding network of external links to other online resources - from Chambers' Cyclopedia to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Excellent functionality and extensive links...

• Search or browse all fields including writer, recipient, date, and location



• Additional indexes allow thematic searches and give access to information on manuscripts, archives and editions



• DOIs (and static URLs) at the level of individual letter writers make it easy to link to Electronic Enlightenment directly from other resources



• *Personalisation - users can keep a record of useful searches and search results, and links to material within Electronic Enlightenment



• Get involved in content and connections - contribute new letters, suggest new editions, provide manuscript or early-print edition images



• *Exchange ideas and discoveries with other users of Electronic Enlightenment



• User-friendly help pages will guide users through the resource

Subscriber services include...

• Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical support



• Detailed usage statistics allow you to track how often your users are accessing Electronic Enlightenment



• MARC records available free of charge to aid cataloguing

Further information

• Institutions: Subscription prices are based on the size and type of institution.
• Individuals: You will soon be able to subscribe online and gain instant access to Electronic Enlightenment via www.oxfordonline.com/subscribe.

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