James L. Harner

“ Advanced Search (which allows a keyword search of a variety of record fields to be limited by date, century, content type, title of publication, document type, language, and target audience and to peer-reviewed publications) ; Person Search (which allows a search for a person to be limited by gender, date of birth, date of death, ethnicity, genre, literary movement or period, nationality, occupation, place of birth, place of death, century, and subject or theme) ”

“ NINES has three major foci: to encourage best practices and priorities in digital project development; to develop online tools for nineteenth-century research, both traditional and new; and to provide peer review for nineteenth-century digital scholarship (a detailed set of guidelines for new projects is available on the site) . NINES features the Collex interface, through which peer-reviewed and other digital sources are brought together with an interoperable search interface that allows concurrent exploration of 866,665 digital objects from 125 federated sites. ”

“ Quick Search offers keyword searching of the entire content of LiOn. The regular Search offers three options: Authors (users can restrict a search by date, gender, nationality, ethnicity, literary movement, and literary period; most fields allow users to select from a list) ; Texts (users can restrict searches of all texts, poetry, prose, or drama to keyword-in-text, title, first line of a poem, author, genre, speaker in a play, part of a work [e.g., preface] , and all the fields in the Author option) ”

“ The focus of 18thConnect, an online community of eighteenth-century scholars, is threefold: enabling plain text searching to freely available and proprietary digital resources in eighteenth-century literature and history, facilitating peer review of eighteenth-century digital scholarship, and developing and encouraging best practices with new digital scholars. ”

“ Researchers need to be aware that this is a discovery tool and that there is no guarantee that they will have access to the complete content of proprietary digital resources.
Database Vendors The following vendors offer access to electronic versions of several reference sources in this Guide. NetFirst (E225a) identifies Internet resources. None of the following vendors provides a remotely adequate explanation of the scope or editorial procedures governing the databases they purvey. ”