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Eighteenth Century Collections Online is twenty years old this year. Is it an ‘old’ digitization?

12 April 2023

Detail from the masthead of the orginal interface (2003-2020) It suddenly struck me that Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is twenty years old this year. Comparatively,...

Reading the changing platforms of Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

13 April 2022

In Old Books and Digital Publishing: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, I analysed the various interfaces to Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), including Jisc’s...

CFP: Isolation and Eighteenth-Century Studies (Defoe Society panel ASECS 2022)

2 June 2021

Isolation is arguably the zeitgeist of the year of COVID-19. Remote working, online learning, shielding, stay-at-home orders, social distancing–all involve some form of isolation,...

Paratext and Metadata: the Interfaces of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online

17 September 2020

This post was orginally written for and published by the Eighteenth-Century Paratext Research Network in August 2020. My thanks to Corinna Readioff for permission to re-blog it via...