Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) é uma coleção digital de obras publicadas no século XVIII, principalmente nas Ilhas Britânicas e nos Estados Unidos. Reúne milhares de títulos que documentam os acontecimentos, ideias e figuras-chave que marcaram esta época, oferecendo acesso essencial a fontes primárias para o estudo da história, política, literatura e cultura do período.
A Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) oferece acesso ao texto completo de uma vasta coleção de livros, panfletos e folhetos publicados entre 1701 e 1800, que abrangem todos os temas do pensamento e da vida no século XVIII.
“To have or not to have ECCO is an existential question for any serious student, researcher, or teacher of the eighteenth century. The database provides access, at the click of a mouse, to the holdings of the very best research libraries in the world. Contrary to research libraries, it permits easy searchability, necessitates no time-consuming travel and is accessible twenty-four hours a day. In teaching, it enables professors to use, and students to do independent research on, an exhilarating range of primary documents. As for research, ECCO is simply becoming a sine qua non for scholarship that breaks new ground.”
― Professor Lukas Erne, Director, English Department, University of Geneva
“ECCO has been invaluable to my research on eighteenth-century literature and culture. Having a full-text, searchable database on my screen allowed me access to even the most obscure primary materials at my convenience, saving me airfare to a major collection. Completing my recent publications would have been much more difficult without ECCO.”
