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"ECCO is an amazingly rich resource: it puts a magnificent library of eighteenth-century printed material on the desktops of scholars and students. It vastly improves access; it allows the scholar to discover new seams of material; it gives students unprecedented access to masses of primary source material. And of course it supports new kinds of searching. It is very well presented and in general easy to use."
Joanna Innes, Somerville College, Oxford University, June 2009 "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, University of Geneva, February 2009 Eighteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious single digitisation project ever undertaken and has resulted in a online library of over 136,000 titles and editions (over 155,000 volumes), published between 1701 and 1800, and printed in English-speaking countries, or countries under British colonial rule. The majority of works in ECCO are in the English language but there are also works printed in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and Welsh.Full-Text Searching of more than 26 million pages takes the user directly to Primary Source materialin facsimile copy of its original. ECCO is supported by catalogue records from the English Short-Title Catalogue. New in 2009 - ECCO Part 2: New Editions
The scope to create an additional collection arose out of several circumstances. Firstly, since ECCO’s original release, the ESTC has uncovered a wealth of valuable new material and new holdings of previously unavailable titles. Secondly, rapid developments in scanning technology have enabled Gale to digitise works too fragile to be handled at the time of ECCO’s original production. Consisting of material filmed from 2003 onwards, ECCO Part 2: New Editions is available exclusively to institutions that have purchased ECCO Part I. The titles cover the same subjects areas as the original collection, with a special emphaisis on Literature, Social Science and Religion titles. This second edition will release complete in 2009 and include nearly 50,000 titles and 7 million pages from the library holdings of world-renowned institutions such as the British Library, Bodleian, Cambridge, National Library of Scotland and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas. ECCO Part 2 will also be enhanced by a new user interface with increased functionality including MARC record/metadata enhancements, a research guide section for undergraduates with contextual essays and chronology, an image gallery and a key documents section. ECCO and Early English Books Online (EEBO) from ProQuest will now be able to cross-search both collections. Users can extend their searches across centuries’ of publications from the first book published in English through to the folios of Shakespeare and the classics of Defoe. Users of ECCO Part 2 will also be able to enjoy the new Research Tools section which includes the following time-saving features:
ECCO/EEBO cross searchability is also available to ECCO I customers. For ECCO I customers who would like to migrate to the new user interface now email emea.globaltech@cengage.com. Please note all institutions will be migrated automatically to the new user interface later in 2009.For further information contact emea.marketing@cengage.com
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With the discovery of new material and the development of new scanning technologies, Gale announces the release of Eighteenth Century Collections Online: Part 2: New Editions. 
