Announcement International Celtic Studies Postgraduate Seminar, 2012

[Rosalind Temple]

But LlGC, like other libraries, has to subscribe to EEBO. Digitised  
texts cost money to produce!! The licensing is about the use of the  
resource, not access to the printed holdings of the library or  
straightforward scans of them.

http://eebo.chadwyck.com/marketing/about.htm#online

It's not comparable to the early modern texts available free to all  
from the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, which although a great  
resource is not searchable and often consists of very poor quality  
scans.

Ros Temple


On 1 Jun 2011, at 20:36, Antony Green wrote:

> Well, that's very generous of them, considering anything published in
> the early modern period is already in the public domain, and any
> library's claim to own the copyright on the manuscripts it owns are
> utterly fraudulent.
>
> Antony
>
> On 01.06.2011 09:36, Andrew Hawke wrote:
>> I should add that you need a Welsh post code to sign up as an online
>> user of the National Library of Wales in order to access EEBO and some
>> other resources for licensing reasons. However many others will have
>> access to EEBO via their academic institution or local public library
>> service. Most NLW services are, of course, available to all.
>>
>> I am told that after ten years, all the EEBO/TCP texts will be placed
>> in the public domain.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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>>> -
>>>
>>> Date:    Tue, 31 May 2011 11:07:36 +0100
>>> From:    Andrew Hawke <ach at ABER.AC.UK>
>>> Subject: Re: Announcement International Celtic Studies Postgraduate
>>> Seminar, 2012 (3)
>>>
>>> 1588 Welsh Bible: Only the first chapter of Genesis is available, it
>>> seems.
>>>
>>> However, a fully searchable highly accurate text has been prepared as
>>> part of the EEBO/TCP project, and it will be available soon on the
>>> National Library of Wales website (www.llgc.org.uk) (look for 'Early
>>> English [sic!] Books Online' (EEBO) under 'electronic resources').
>>> Users wishing to access it will have to sign up as Library users.
>>>
>>> Various other early printed Welsh texts are also in preparation, or
>>> already available (e.g. the 1620 edition is already available and is
>>> far more accurate than the Wikisource one, which seems to be a
>>> transcription of a modern Bible based on the 1620 version, rather
>>> than a transcription of the original 1620 version).
>>>
>>> Andrew Hawke
>>>
>>>> Date:    Sun, 29 May 2011 07:41:19 +0200
>>>> From:    Antony Green <toniogreen at WEB.DE>
>>>> Subject: Re: Announcement International Celtic Studies Postgraduate
>>>> Seminar, 2012
>>>>
>>>> The 1588 Bible is available in digital form at Welsh Wikisource,
>>>> http://cy.wikisource.org/wiki/Beibl.
>>>> There's no specific search function for it, though, other than the
>>>> normal search function of your browser, or by googling with
>>>> "site:cy.wikisource.org".
>>>>
>>>> Antony Green
>>
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>
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