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Inhalt :: Content
Zusätzlich zu den in Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO I und ECCO II) enthaltenen 180.000 digitalisierten gedruckten Werken, die zwischen 1701 und 1800 im Vereinigten Königreich veröffentlicht wurden, bietet der dritte Teil der renommierten ECCO-Reihe weitere 1,7 Millionen bisher nicht digitalisierte Seiten, darunter eine Vielzahl von Inhaltstypen in ungewöhnlichen Formaten und Größen wie Flugblätter, Karten und farbige Digitalisiate von Buchdeckeln und -rücken.
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Verlagsinformation :: Publisher's information
For over two decades, scholars have explored essential eighteenth-century content in Eighteenth Century Collections Online, more familiarly known as ECCO. Currently offering researchers access to over 180,000 titles and more than thirty-two million pages, this extensive digital archive is invaluable to eighteenth-century studies across disciplines:
- Interdisciplinary Applications:
Support research from history and literature to the social sciences and beyond.
- Varied Content:
Offer content covering a wide range of subjects, including business, economics, politics, science, arts, and humanities.
- Global Reach:
Connect researchers to eighteenth-century perspectives from Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III
Research into the transformative impact of the eighteenth century enriches our understanding of modern institutions and fosters broad cultural awareness. Now academic institutions can provide new critical content to analyze the ongoing influence of this pivotal century with Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part III.
What’s New in ECCO III?
- 1.7 million newly digitized pages in vivid full color
- Added perspectives from the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe
- Unique materials in unusual formats and sizes, including broadsides, maps, and book covers
Filling Gaps in Eighteenth-Century Knowledge
From ist inception, ECCO was intended to connect researchers to a comprehensive digital collection of published materials from the eighteenth century. ECCO I and ECCO II include over thirty-two million pages of primary source content—however, the collection was not yet complete.
Twenty years after the release of ECCO I, the discovery of new titles and the development of new scanning technology open the door for us to bring researchers rare and relevant eighteenth-century materials previously unavailable in digital form.
ECCO III Content Highlights
- High-quality, full-color images directly from the original source content
- A large number of single-sheet works (broadsides) covering various subjects and comprising thousands of illustrated works
- Book covers and spines to meet the needs of a growing number of scholars investigating the history of the book and printing
How can Researchers use ECCO III?
The third installment of the acclaimed ECCO series will equip researchers to analyze how a century of transformative ideas shaped our modern world. Scholars will find more essential material to trace revolutions in France, America, and Haiti; explore how the birth of the novel shaped literature and the rise of literacy; and understand the lasting impacts of European empires that imposed their control and culture on Indigenous peoples.
From its inception, ECCO was intended to connect researchers to a comprehensive digital collection of published materials from the eighteenth century. ECCO I and ECCO II include over thirty-two million pages of primary source content—however, the collection was not yet complete.
Twenty years after the release of ECCO I, the discovery of new titles and the development of new scanning technology open the door for us to bring researchers rare and relevant eighteenth-century materials previously unavailable in digital form.
Enhance Research Across Disciplines
Support in-depth exploration and analysis across disciplines, including history, economics, linguistics, social sciences, politics, literature, science, and medicine.
The Gale Primary Sources platform
ECCO is available on the Gale Primary Sources platform, which allows users to cross-search this collection with others through an intuitive interface backed by essential features.
Researchers benefit from:
- A dedicated Learning Center that explains how to make the most of the archive
- Powerful Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software that makes each document fully keyword and text-searchable
- Advanced search tools, including Term Frequency and Topic Finder.
- Essays that show how ECCO supports research in trending and emerging eighteenth-century topics
Integration with Gale Digital Scholar Lab, an award-winning platform for text and data mining (TDM) and analysis
Librarians benefit from:
- MARC records for ease of integration into library catalog
- Preservation of the electronic version of materials is ensured through Portico, a trusted partner devoted to the long-term preservation of digital objects
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