Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digital collection of books published in Great Britain during the 18th century.[1][2]

Gale, an education publishing company in the United States, assembled the collection by digitally scanning microfilm reproductions of 136,291 titles.[1][3] Documents scanned after 2002 are added to a second collection, ECCO II. As of January 2014, ECCO II comprises 46,607 titles.[4]

  1. ^ a b "ECCO Navigation Guide" (PDF). Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  2. ^ "JISC: The world's largest digital library of 18th century printed books grows even larger for UK academic community". Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  3. ^ Smith, Jennette (18 August 2003). "Gale, ProQuest hope to find new money in old documents: Gale Group launches new Eighteenth Century Collections Online". Crain's Detroit Business. 'The microfilm images are digitized using software developed by HTC Global Services in Troy. The cost per image has declined from 16–19 cents to below double digits' said CEO Allen Paschal.
  4. ^ "ECCO Part II: New Editions". Gale / Cengage Learning. Cengage Learning. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2014.