@article {lindquist_pleasd_2007,
	title = {Pleas{\textquoteright}d By a Newe Inuention?: Assessing the Impact of Early English Books Online on Teaching and Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder},
	journal = {The Journal of Academic Librarianship},
	volume = {33},
	number = {3},
	year = {2007},
	note = {00003},
	pages = {347{\textendash}360},
	abstract = {Lindquist and Wicht survey undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members at University of Colorado at Boulder to decipher the impact of Early English Books Online (EEBO) on the academic sphere. Despite being the first large electronic corpus, Lindquist and Wicht argue that little work has been on the impact of the resource. The authors of this article wanted to determine the likes, dislikes, challenges, and opportunities of EEBO. They conducted a survey of 30 undergraduates, 11 graduates, and 9 faculty in the spring 2005. Overall, undergraduates used EEBO to complete course assignments, graduates used EEBO either to complete course assignments or for independent research, and faculty members mostly used EEBO for individual research with a handle employing EEBO as a teaching resource. The most effective feature of EEBO was unanimously the downloading feature, which plays to the resource{\textquoteright}s improvement of access and efficiency over the UMI microfilms it is designed to replace. The EEBO online help function was the least effective. Instructors found that the electronic format of EEBO and the value of search ability made it a resource worth incorporating into the classroom. },
	issn = {0099-1333},
	doi = {10.1016/j.acalib.2007.01.011},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0099133307000390},
	author = {Lindquist, Thea and Wicht, Heather}
}