{"id":10695,"date":"2006-06-07T14:26:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-07T14:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/libtest\/2006\/06\/07\/eighteenth_cent_1\/"},"modified":"2014-01-24T21:23:25","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T21:23:25","slug":"eighteenth_cent_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2006\/06\/07\/eighteenth_cent_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you, like me, who remember libraries prior to the advent of digital resources,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/infotrac.galegroup.com\/itweb\/temple_main?db=ECCO\">ECCO\u00a0<\/a>will serve as a revelation. In a world of hype and spin, this is the real deal. Even younger, Web-savvy researchers will be utterly amazed by ECCO. According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu:2090\/servlet\/ECCO?locID=temple_main&amp;helppg=ecco_about.htm&amp;ste=23#description\">Thomson-Gale&#8217;s &#8220;About&#8221; page<\/a>, ECCO is the &#8220;most ambitious single digitization project ever undertaken&#8221;. It is based on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/eureka.rlg.org\/Eureka\/zgate2.prod?ACTION=INIT&amp;LIMFIL=EST&amp;LOGOFF=http:\/\/library.temple.edu\">English Short Title Catalog<\/a>, and contains the full-text of 150,000 book titles published in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800. ECCO provides, &#8220;in essence, [easy access to] every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas&#8221; (ibid.).<\/p>\n<p>ECCO complements\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libproxy.temple.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/eebo.chadwyck.com\">Early English Books Online (EEBO)<\/a>, another Temple database that contains the full-text of nearly 110,000 English-language titles published between 1475 and 1700. It has never before been possible to\u00a0<em>quickly and comprehensively<\/em>\u00a0search the corpus of printed works spanning the entire history of Early Modern Britain. This opens up possibilities for research virtually unimaginable before the creation of ECCO, EEBO, and other\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/articles\/subject_guides\/history.jsp?bhcp=1#primary\">primary source databases<\/a>. Scholars from every conceivable field of inquiry can potentially benefit from access to ECCO. Obvious examples are history (including the history of science &amp; technology), literature, political science, and even music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Note<\/strong>: The undergraduate researcher, especially, should work closely with his or her professor and\/or a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/services\/library_instruction\/specialists\/\">librarian\u00a0<\/a>to identify reference works and other secondary titles that can provide some context for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.washington.edu\/subject\/History\/RUSA\/#one\">primary sources<\/a>\u00a0discussed in this post. It is important to understand wider social, political, economic, and military contexts in order to make sense of primary documents preserved in the historical record.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/about\/directory\/stafflist.jsp?criteria=Murray&amp;type=name&amp;bhcp=1\">David C.Murray<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you, like me, who remember libraries prior to the advent of digital resources,\u00a0ECCO\u00a0will serve as a revelation. In a world of hype and spin, this is the real deal. Even younger, Web-savvy researchers will be utterly amazed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/2006\/06\/07\/eighteenth_cent_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,17,6],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news","tag-history-news","tag-new-updated-electronic-resources","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/librarynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}