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On trial: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Part III

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I'm happy to let you know that the Library currently has trial access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Part III from Gale and the British Library. This is a recently released collection and the first new ECCO collection in over 15 years.

Screenshot of Gale Primary Sources: Eighteenth Century Collections Online homepage.

You can access ECCO, Part III via the E-resources trials page.

Trial access ends 31st May 2026.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a vast eighteenth-century library at your desktop. It is a fully text-searchable corpus of books, pamphlets, and broadsides in all subjects printed between 1701 and 1800.

ECCO is a digitisation of the eighteenth-century section of the works catalogued in the English Short-title Catalogue (ESTC). The ESTC project has been recording all works published or printed in Britain, Ireland, territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. It also catalogues material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.

The brand new Part III collection, adds 1.7 million never-before-digitised pages to the current 32-million-page archive, expanding eighteenth-century studies for researchers across disciplines to explore global perspectives across Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australia.

ECCO was last updated in 2009, so this third installment contains objects that could not previously be microfilmed or digitised due to their unique size, expanding access to rare materials.

You can access Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), Part III via the E-resources trials page.
Trial access ends 31st May 2026.
Feedback welcome.

The Library already has permanent access to ECCO, Part II and III. This can be accessed via the Digital Primary Source and Archive Collections guide or through DiscoverEd.

Please note, trial access to a resource is an opportunity for our staff and students to try a resource out and give feedback on its quality and usefulness. However, if we trial a resource this is not an indication that we plan to or will be able to purchase or subscribe to the resource in the near future.

Trial access is only available to current students and members of staff at University of Edinburgh.

Caroline Stirling – Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology

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