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).
“As a Professor of English Historical Linguistics, I could no longer do without ECCO (and its companion database, EEBO) for my research. I remember when I had to make expensive, time-consuming trips to London or Oxford, read early modern English books in the libraries there, order and pay for microfilms, and get them many weeks later. Nowadays, at a click of a mouse, I can access all the early books I want, and I can easily compare different editions of the same work. My research on the history of English lexicography in the 18th century would be literally impossible without ECCO; nor would it be possible for my MA and PhD students to study and work on primary sources.”
― Prof. Giovanni Iamartino, University of Milan
“Another of the latest 'hot' products to wow scholars, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, a comprehensive digital edition of The Eighteenth Century microfilm resource, includes nearly every significant English-language title and edition published between 1701 and 1800 in the UK, along with thousands of important works from the Americas—amounting to full-text searching of some 33 million pages of material. A wonderful addition of primary source material to have readily accessible.”
