Eighteenth Century Collections Online – Part 2 now available
Writing about web page http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/news_and_events/newsletter/july_newsletter.aspx?6
Part 2 of Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) has been purchased by JISC Collections, and will be available from 1st August 2009.
Adding almost 7 million pages to the size of ECCO, Part 2 includes 45,000 titles uncovered by the English Short Title Catalogue – for example 96 new editions of Shakespeare, and 900 new works and editions by over 400 female authors.
An enhanced user interface – including new features and contextual tools to make the database more accessible to students and valuable to advanced researchers – will also be available to subscribing institutions.
Together, Parts 1 and 2 together offer online access to over 180,000 titles (200,000 volumes) and nearly 33 million pages published between 1701 and 1800.
To find out more, click here
Andrew Noble
28 Jul 2009 11:49
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Peter Kirwan
Just when I’d finished a long year surveying every 18th century edition of Shakespeare in ECCO and signed it off as a good job, you add another 96. Talk about a mixed blessing…..
30 Jul 2009, 11:05
Andrew Noble
Such is life. We never finish work, only abandon it
31 Jul 2009, 11:20
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