I am pleased to announce that the Libraries recently purchased Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ECCO redefines how researchers access a century of the most influential works ever printed. It is the single most ambitious digitization project ever undertaken. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. With full-text searching of millions of pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of law, history, literature, religion, fine arts, science and more.

Features:

- 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes)

- Full-text search capabilities

- Well-known and lesser-known authors

- Canonical titles of the period as well as contemporary works that analyze and debate those titles

ECCO complements the acquisition of Early English Books Online (EEBO), which contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North

America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. You can access ECCO & EEBO from the Database by Title page.

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