The Library has obtained trial access to two excellent research databases from
Gale Digital Collections which offer a wealth of resources from the 18th,19th and early 20th centuries.
ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online is an online library of over 136,000 titles and editions (over 155,000 volumes), published between 1701 and 1800. It provides full text searching of more than 26 million pages, giving immediate access to every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom during that period, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
It is a diverse collection, encompassing everything from books to sheet music to advertisements, from collections on the French Revolution to numerous editions of the works of Shakespeare. Multiple editions of individual works are offered to enable scholars to make textual comparisons of the works.
Subject areas provided for include English Literature, History, Geography, French, Philosophy, Sociology and Fine Arts.
Alongside ECCO, there is
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, also from
Gale Digital Collections. This contains fully indexed digitised versions of the Nineteenth Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises collections. It provides over 10 million pages of legal history from America and Britain, making it the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises.
The trial access for both of these databases ends on
November 25th so make sure to have a look while they're available! We'd be glad to receive feedback about them or suggestions for other databases you'd like to try out.
Students and staff of St Patrick's College can access these resources from on or off campus by using the links above or via the
Trial Databases page on our website.
