Early English Books Online (EEBO) This link opens in a new window1470s-1700 EEBO, Early English Books Online, provides digital access to citations and facsimile full texts made from several microfilm sets. The works included were printed in England or other English-speaking places. The database may be searched by author, title, keywords, L.C. subject headings, imprint, date, type of illustration, film reel ID number, STC number, source library, language, or combination of these. There are browse indexes for authors' names, titles, and subject headings. Use these for best retrieval.Some of the full text items in EEBO have been marked up so as to be searchable by individual words in their texts by the TCP, Text Creation Partnership Project, at the University of Michigan, which is supported by M.S.U. and other libraries. See the next entry in this guide for the link to EEBO TCP. Here it is possible to enter modern spellings of words and retrieve words from ye olden days.Not every item for which bibliographical details are present in EEBO has full text available here. In these cases, one must use the microfilm reel referred to in the entry by reel and position number. M.S.U. Libraries has the three microfilm sets mentioned: STC I, STC II, and the Thomason Tracts.STC I (this is the call number) contains items printed up through 1640.STC II (this is the call number) contains items printed from 1641-1700.14458 (this is the call number) contains items in the Thomason Tracts, a set of broadsides from the English Civil War, 1640-1660.Go to the Copy Center/Microforms unit on 2nd floor west wing.ESTC is a publicly available online bibliographical database containing library locations for the actual early printed works from the 1470s to 1800; see the entry for this below in this guide.These are the printed bibliographies from which the film sets were made:Pollard and Redgrave, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640, Main Z 2002 .A27 and oversize Z 2002 .A27 1976.Wing, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700, Microcopy guides Z 2002 .W52 and Main Z 2002 .W52 1994.Thomason Tracts, 1640-1661..., Main Z 2018 .T49 1981.For help using EEBO contact Agnes Widder, widder@msu.edu.