1. Early English Books Online (EEBO). Available: http://eebo.chadwyck.com/ (May 25, 2006). Full text simply refers to the fact that one can access the entire content of a work. In the context of this article, the authors refer to two main types of full text: full–text page images in EEBO are facsimile images of items scanned from microfilm that can be read but not searched; keyword–searchable full text is ASCII text of items that can both be read and searched, like the EEBO–TCP texts.
2. For more information on the EEBO–TCP project, see http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/eebo.
3. For a description of these bibliographies and specific arguments for their superiority over the ESTC and EEBO, see William P. Williams and William Baker, “Caveat Lector: English Books 1475–1700 and the Electronic Age,” Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, ns. 12, no. 1 (2001): 1–29, esp. n. 1. Please note that not all items from the print bibliographies are available on microfilm, for instance in cases where a holding institution has not made a work available for filming or where a work no longer exists. UMI has continued to pursue permissions to film titles and add reels to its microfilm collections.
4. Jesse Lander, “‘Index Learning’: EEBO and Scholarship in the Humanities,” paper presented as part of the Literatures in English Section panel “Old Texts Made New: EEBO, ECCO, and the Impact on Literary Scholarship” at the American Library Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois, June 25, 2005.
5. UCB faculty member, group interview by authors, April 27, 2005, Boulder, Colorado, tape recording.