Description:	On completion will contain full text of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) and Early English Books Tract Supplement collections.
Use for:	English literature, classical literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, political science, history of science, and the fine arts.
Search options:	Basic Search: the default searching format. Searches citations from EEBO, not the full text of the documents. You can choose to search by Keyword in any field of the citation Author keyword Title keyword Subject keyword If you put terms in more than one search box the database combines the terms with the Boolean operator AND. Date limits are available. See the Basic Search Help for more information. Advanced Search:looks for words from significant areas of the citations. In addition to the basic fields, you can search by Source Library, Language, and Country of Origin, just to name a few options. See the Advanced Search Help for more information. For both Basic and Advanced searching, you can look at the SEARCH HISTORY, a powerful option that allows you to reuse the results of previous searches from your session.
Truncation:	Use * to search for any character or characters, including none: child* will find child, childe, childhood, children, etc. Very useful for alternate spellings. Use ? to search for any single character or none, for example, wom?n will find woman, women, womyn, etc.
Boolean:	AND, OR, NOT, FBY.x (search terms appear within x words of each other and in the same order as you typed them), and NEAR.x (search terms appear within x words of each other, in any order). If no maximum x is set, EEBO will list all items that contain the selected search terms within ten words of each other. You can use parentheses to specify the order in which EEBO finds your search terms, as EEBO looks for any search terms in parentheses first. See the Boolean operators and Proximity operators help for more information.
Phrase searching:	You can either use quotation marks around a phrase, or use the operator fby.1 as described above.
Printing/Email:	Details are given here for printing documents. You need to download a document in order to print it. The Print buttons allow you to print records for the items you find, but not the documents themselves. The steps given here are for what seems to be the easiest method. You can view documents by clicking on the Document Image icon. Mark documents from the Search Results page. Click on MARKED LIST at the top of the screen. One item at a time, click on Download Document Image sets in PDF format. A window will open that will let you Download entire document or Download range of document images. Make your choice, and click on the Download button. You may have to click on the Confirm button to see the text. It will appear in Adobe Acrobat format. You can now print any or all of the pages you downloaded. For more information, see Print, Email, Download Records and Downloading Images in PDF Format.
Comments:	This is an incredibly rich source. It takes a little time to understand, so don't expect to use it well immediately. It does provide access to materials that many graduate and professional researchers in the arts and humanities would want. Overall, downloaded images seem to be the easiest to work with once a document has been retrieved.