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Eighteenth Century Collections Online. The World’s Largest Scholarly Research Community. Eighteenth Century Collections Online.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online The World’s Largest Scholarly Research Community
Eighteenth Century Collections Online A university that does not have ECCO is not a serious player in eighteenth-century British and American studies—in literature or in anything else. Any institution giving graduate degrees in eighteenth-century subjects reduces itself to below minor-league status if it does not provide ECCO to its students—and is putting its publishing faculty at a crippling disadvantage. Rob Hume English Professor- Penn State University
Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO is: • Widely held with over 500 institutions have access across the globe • Considered essential for 18th Century studies • VERY cross-disciplinary in nature; appeals to all departments • “ECCO Native” PhD’s • Scholarly standard: 18th century research must apply ECCO to ensure thoroughness, comprehensiveness, and completeness • Used as a recruiting tool for top faculty and graduate students • Allows researchers to undertake previously unfeasible projects • Comprehensive – inclusion policy driven by ESTC • Both students, faculty and library staff find the product useful for a wide range of research projects • Persistent URL’s for every page of the collection facilitate inclusion in e-course packs and bookmarking • Identification & comparison of multiple editions of the same work • Learn what contemporaries wrote about each other’s works
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II ECCO II will bring the following: New Content • 47,000 new titles with 6-7M pages of content • Treated as add-in content set to ECCO, not standalone DVI • Material filmed from 1/1/2003 forward • ECCO II source institutions include: • British Library • Bodleian (Oxford) • Cambridge • National Library of Scotland • University of Texas • Same subject modules as for ECCO with higher % of Social Sciences/Fine Arts • ESTC/MARC Enhancement to add subject headings • Yale • University of Texas • University of Illinois • Boston Public Library • National Library of Ireland
Eighteenth Century Collections Online II ECCO II will bring the following: Migration to new platform with new functionality • Improved/more engaging user interface • Cross search with Early English Books Online from Proquest • Citation generator/exporter • Research tools: contextual essays, image gallery, most popular searches, key documents, chronology and more • Keyword in Context – results list includes link to snippet of page image showing first match for search term • Narrow results list by subject area/module • Download feature expanded to handle 250 pages • Quick search feature from any screen