English Short Title Catalogue

The English Short Title Catalogue, short ESTC is the total electronic bibliography of all stand-alone titles, which were printed in 1473-1800 in English and in other languages ​​in the English language. The ESTC is on the pages of British Library freely accessible.

Database

The online resource went essentially - in the intermediate step of the " Eighteenth - Century Short Title Catalogue" - from a merge of the Wing Catalogues with the British Library Catalogue forth. The ESTC recorded tracks from the one-sided pamphlet to the multi-volume book. Periodicals remain the subject of separate bibliographies. The search screens allow detailed searches of titles formulations of proven functional groups and the accompanying bibliographic information about authors, publishers, composition of the title ( with information on the number of pages of preface, text, registers, etc. ). Regarding the information that identifies the individual pressure, global location proofs come ( via library signatures) which make it possible to locate the nearest available copy. The ESTC has 460,000 entries (as of May 2012).

The ESTC reference numbers permit beyond the simple operation of EEBO ( Early English Books Online) and ECCO ( Eighteenth Century Collections Online), commercial databases, the same stock ( in the Federal Republic of Germany to anyone who strives for his receipt of the National license) online makes it accessible in digitized.

International comparative projects include the German VD 17, the STCN the Netherlands and the international short title catalogs ISTC (15th century) and USTC ( 15th and 16th centuries ).