Launch of the Beta Version of the New English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

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The ESTC team is delighted to launch the Beta version of the new English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), the most comprehensive resource available for the output of the printing press in the English-speaking world before 1801. ESTC is now part of the Consortium of European Research Libraries’ (CERL) ecosystem and accessible for free.ESTC is a bibliography that aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced during the hand-press era in the E