{"id":2566,"date":"2015-02-09T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:01:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:01:32","slug":"over-25000-early-english-books-released-into-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2015\/02\/09\/over-25000-early-english-books-released-into-the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 25,000 early English books released into the public domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since\u00a0January 2015\u00a0over 25,000 early English texts from 1473-1700 have been released online to members of the public under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication through the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP). Since 2000, the university libraries of\u00a0Michigan\u00a0and\u00a0Oxford\u00a0and\u00a0ProQuest\u00a0have been working together in this initiative to\u00a0create\u00a0electronic text versions\u00a0of early printed books from ProQuest\u2019s Early English Books Online, Gale Cengage\u2019s Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Readex\u2019s Evans Early American Imprints.<\/p>\n<p>While these texts were previously only available to users of academic libraries participating in the partnership,\u00a0at the end of the first phase\u00a0of\u00a0EEBO-TCP the current 25,000 texts have now been released into the public domain. They include highlights such as first printed editions of Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Milton, but also a wide variety of lesser known texts on topics ranging from sword fighting to witchcraft and gardening manuals. Users can not only browse and read through the text of these early English books, but also search through the entire corpus (which consists of two million pages and nearly a billion words). Searching for keywords and themes is possible as well because the text has been encoded with Extensible Markup Language (XML). An additional 40,000 texts\u00a0will be released\u00a0into the public domain by 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openglam.org\/2015\/01\/29\/over-25000-early-english-books-released-into-the-public-domain\/#sthash.yDOAbNHA.dpuf\">See more here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since\u00a0January 2015\u00a0over 25,000 early English texts from 1473-1700 have been released online to members of the public under the CC0 Public Domain Dedication through the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP). Since 2000, the university libraries of\u00a0Michigan\u00a0and\u00a0Oxford\u00a0and\u00a0ProQuest\u00a0have been working together in this initiative to\u00a0create\u00a0electronic text versions\u00a0of early printed books from ProQuest\u2019s Early English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archives-in-the-news","7":"category-books"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}