1. Eighteenth Century Collections Online The Worlds Largest Scholarly Research Community

2. Eighteenth Century Collections Online A university that does not have ECCO is not a serious player in eighteenth-century British and American studiesin literature or in anything else. Any institution giving graduate degrees in eighteenth-century subjects reduces itself to below minor-league status if it does not provide ECCO to its studentsand is putting its publishing faculty at a crippling disadvantage. Rob Hume English Professor- Penn State University

3. Eighteenth Century Collections Online ECCO is: Widely held with over 500 institutions have access across the globe Considered essential for 18 th Century studies –VERY cross-disciplinary in nature; appeals to all departments –ECCO Native PhDs –Scholarly standard: 18 th century research must apply ECCO to ensure thoroughness, comprehensiveness, and completeness –Used as a recruiting tool for top faculty and graduate students –Allows researchers to undertake previously unfeasible projects –Comprehensive – inclusion policy driven by ESTC Both students, faculty and library staff find the product useful for a wide range of research projects –Persistent URLs for every page of the collection facilitate inclusion in e-course packs and bookmarking –Identification & comparison of multiple editions of the same work –Learn what contemporaries wrote about each others works

4. Eighteenth Century Collections Online II ECCO II will bring the following: New Content 47,000 new titles with 6-7M pages of content Treated as add-in content set to ECCO, not standalone DVI Material filmed from 1/1/2003 forward ECCO II source institutions include: British Library Bodleian (Oxford) Cambridge National Library of Scotland University of Texas Same subject modules as for ECCO with higher % of Social Sciences/Fine Arts ESTC/MARC Enhancement to add subject headings Yale University of Texas University of Illinois Boston Public Library National Library of Ireland

5. Eighteenth Century Collections Online II ECCO II will bring the following: Migration to new platform with new functionality Improved/more engaging user interface Cross search with Early English Books Online from Proquest Citation generator/exporter Research tools: contextual essays, image gallery, most popular searches, key documents, chronology and more Keyword in Context – results list includes link to snippet of page image showing first match for search term Narrow results list by subject area/module Download feature expanded to handle 250 pages Quick search feature from any screen