Eighteenth Century Collections Online, or ECCO, is a digitization of thousands of titles published or printed during the 18th century, mostly in the British Isles and the U.S., highlighting events and individuals that gave this century its character.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets, and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800. ECCO is a digitization of the eighteenth-century section of the works cataloged in the English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC).
“To have or not to have ECCO is an existential question for any serious student, researcher, or teacher of the eighteenth century. The database provides access, at the click of a mouse, to the holdings of the very best research libraries in the world. Contrary to research libraries, it permits easy searchability, necessitates no time-consuming travel and is accessible twenty-four hours a day. In teaching, it enables professors to use, and students to do independent research on, an exhilarating range of primary documents. As for research, ECCO is simply becoming a sine qua non for scholarship that breaks new ground.”
― Professor Lukas Erne, Director, English Department, University of Geneva
“ECCO has been invaluable to my research on eighteenth-century literature and culture. Having a full-text, searchable database on my screen allowed me access to even the most obscure primary materials at my convenience, saving me airfare to a major collection. Completing my recent publications would have been much more difficult without ECCO.”
