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Early American Imprints, Series I

Evans Digital Edition: Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) is newly available in electronic form from NewsBank-Readex.  The collection has served as a resource for information about every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, slavery, temperance, witchcraft, and other topics of academic research.

This unique, Internet-based resource will consist of:
--All titles contained in Evans microform editions - 36,000+ items over 2.4 million images, all with OCR-created ASCII text. (The Series I product is the pre-1800 segment of the larger collection above.)
--A database enriched by more than 1,200 catalogued new items.
--Integrated bibliographic records from the American Antiquarian Society.

The Evans Digital Edition currently offers the first series only, that is, the pre-1800 portion or the Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800). Large portions of Series I are currently available online, to be completed this year. Evans Digital Edition is being released in monthly segments over a two-year period that began in July 2002. Other series will follow. Completion is scheduled for 2004.

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