“ Scans at archive.org The project operates in patchwork fashion, taking pieces of text from various scans: but there is a priority order of where to look that will save large amounts of time.
The "Toronto" scans are the best of the bunch at archive.org, and are available for 43 out of 63 of the volumes (with two of those not being complete) . If you intend to work through a single volume, as some participants do, it would make a lot of sense to choose one such volume. ”

“ Scans elsewhere There are probably hundreds of DNB biographies posted on the Web somewhere (well proof-read or not, copyedited or not, from the first edition or not, who knows) . It could be of interest to collate some information about what else is out there.
The other source of major interest is that on the ODNB site. This is a source of text proof-read to high quality; but unfortunately not of the edition we are working on. ”

“ They have " [q.v.] " where we usually have the spaced " [q. v.] ", and punctuate differently, with " [q.v.] ," where we have " [q. v.] ,", also " [q.v.] ." where we have " [q. v.] " at the end of sentences. They have the references section headed "Sources", and not enclosed in [ and ] and in small type. At the end of the article the author's initials are not given necessarily with the same abbreviation as here (e.g. S.L. for S.L.L.) . They romanise any text in Greek, which the first edition didn't. Certain titles of nobility have small caps applied in a different way: e.g. " ”