E-research and educational publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning, US, and JISC Collections have announced an agreement to make Part 2 of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) digitisation project freely available to all UK academic institutions currently subscribing to ECCO.
With 45,000 new titles selected from the English Short Title Catalogue, ECCO Part 2 adds about seven million pages to the size of the collection. As with Part 1, ECCO Part 2 includes almost 13,000 titles from British Library's extensive holdings of eighteenth-century material.
First released in 2003 and originally acquired by JISC Collections in 2006, ECCO quickly established itself as the world's largest digital library of the print book, with over 200,000 volumes of key 18th century works. Since then, the English Short Title Catalogue has uncovered a wealth of valuable new material and new holdings of previously unavailable titles. The material in ECCO Part 2 includes both new titles that have been added to the ESTC as well as newly reported holdings information.
Scholars can delve into ancient and contemporary times, voyages and discoveries, biographies and memoirs in history and geography. They can also investigate how diseases were treated in medicine, look into science, technology and study other celebrated novelists, poets and playwrights in literature and language.
The new release includes an enhanced user interface with new features and contextual tools to make the database more accessible to students and valuable to advanced researchers. Institutions that already participate in the JISC Collections ECCO agreement will have access to ECCO Part 2 and the new interface from August 1, 2009 with no further action required on their part.
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