The CBSR, which hosts ESTC/NA at the University of California-Riverside, is scheduled to close at the end of June 2025. Arrangements are underway to establish a new site for the ESTC/NA office. Meanwhile, the ESTC itself is back online and available through the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL): English Short Title Catalogue.
The English Short Title Catalog is the most comprehensive guide available to the output of the press in the English-speaking world before 1801. The project is both a bibliography that aims to record every distinct item printed during the “hand-press era” in England and its territories, and a union catalog that lists both copies of those items held by libraries and, more recently, digital reproductions of those copies. Begun in the late 1970s, the database currently contains about 500,000 records and more than 3 million holdings. The ESTC is co-managed by the British Library (BL) and the ESTC/NA.
In May 2025 the public interface of the ESTC moved to the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL):
Institutions that want to contribute to the ESTC: