Gregg, S.H (2020) Old books and digital publishing: Eighteenth-Century Collections Online. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9781108767415
Abstract
This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. Like many commercial digital archives, ECCO's continuing development obscures its precedents. This Element examines its prehistory as, first, a computer catalogue of eighteenth-century print, and then as a commercial microfilm collection, before moving to the digitisation and development of the interfaces to ECCO, as well as Gale's various partnerships and licensing deals. An essential aspect of this Element is how it explores the socio-cultural and technological debates around the access to old books from the 1930s to the present day: Stephen Gregg demonstrates how these contexts powerfully shape the way ECCO works to this day. The Element's aim is to make us better users and better readers of digital archives.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Note: | This book is available as an Open Access publication from the publisher website at the URL above. Part of the 'Elements in Publishing and Book Culture' series. |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| UoA: | English Literature & Language |
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| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2020 10:41 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2022 15:18 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/13552 |
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