ECCO was hailed as the instrument of great transformation in eighteenth-century studies. So, have these predictions been validated and, as
ECCO is upgraded to a new platform with enhanced features, what is its value today in what is a changed digital world?
Eighteenth Century Collections Online can be seen as a library of eighteenth-century life. It is an extraordinary resource for all manner of research topics. Not only does
ECCO provide the facsimile texts of well-known, less well-known, and the unheard-of for centuries, but it enables researchers and students to search through its entire corpus.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online has consistently been the second most heavily used resource within