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Liberty Fund

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Liberty Fund is a private educational foundation established to enrich the understanding and appreciation of the complex nature of a society of free and responsible individuals.

Liberty Fund publishes insightful books, conducts engaging conferences, and offers thought-provoking online resources. These programs focus on the intellectual heritage of individual liberty from ancient times through our own. Liberty Fund does not engage in political activity or advocacy, nor in policy making. Learn More

Through the online sources, you can explore Smith’s life and works with access to a wide variety of educational materials that help you learn about and teach concepts central to Adam Smith; Econlib is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty through a combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought; Law & Liberty focuses on the classical liberal tradition of law and political thought and how it shapes a society of free and responsible individuals; The Online Library of Liberty (OLL) offers one of the world’s most extensive digital libraries of scholarly works focused on individual liberty.

Free to view pages on the British Newspaper Archive

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The British Library and the British Newspaper Archive are committed to making historical resources available to more and more people, and the introduction of free to view pages marks a significant milestone in this commitment. Following this link, you will find how to access and search through the free to view pages.

Now, with one million pages made free to view today, consisting of 150 titles and spanning the years 1720-1880 more and more people will be able to search the unparalleled resource which is offered by the British Newspaper Archive, in partnership with the British Library.

Over the next three years, we will see a total of 3.7 million free to view pages being added to The Archive, with the aim of shedding light on the diverse content held by the British Library. Learn more.

ANNOTATED BOOKS ONLINE

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Annotated Books Online is a virtual research environment for scholars and students interested in historical reading practices. It is part of the research project “A Collaboratory for the Study of Reading and the Circulation of Ideas in Early Modern Europe” funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and co-ordinated by Arnoud Visser. Generous additional funding was provided by Anthony Grafton for the edition of Gabriel Harvey’s annotations to Livy (Mellon Foundation). Learn more

EARLY ENGLISH BOOKS ONLINE (EEBO)

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EEBO is based on the microfilm collections curated by the Ann Arbor publisher Eugene B. Power (1905-1993). The founder of what became University Microfilms International or UMI, Power’s first foreign project established the microfilming operation at the British Museum in 1942 and, since then, more than 200 libraries worldwide have contributed to the microfilm collection.

Following its digital launch in 1998, Early English Books Online now contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700.

Beginning with the very first book published in English, EEBO draws from four authoritative bibliographical resources – both Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640)and Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) in their revised versions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) and the Early English Books Tract Supplement – to present more than 146,000 titles and over 17 million scanned pages of content. Learn more

ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE

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The ESTC contains catalogue entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. Also included is material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.

The database contains over 480,000 entries, and represents the holdings of some 2,000 libraries world-wide. Learn more

UNIVERSAL SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE

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The USTC has now absorbed all our data for the period 1601-1650, so that we provide full coverage of the first two centuries of print in all our searches and analysis. We have added an extra one million copies, with, as far as possible, call numbers. We now have located copies from 8,500 libraries, archives and museums.

The USTC now comprises 740,000 editions with 4,000,000 surviving copies. Additional data to be added over the next weeks will take this total to 780,000 editions. The USTC now includes descriptions of some 40,000 single-sheet items, and this too will climb rapidly as we incorporate several thousand further items that we have discovered in our searches in archives. Learn more

RENAISSANCE CULTURAL CROSSROAD

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The Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue is a searchable, analytical and annotated list of all translations out of and into all languages printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland before 1641. It also includes all translations out of all languages into English printed abroad before 1641.

RCCC draws on the second edition of the Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640 edited by A. W. Pollard & G. R. Redgrave and is modelled on the online English Short-Title Catalogue, although offering additional information on the translations and translators. Learn more