ProQuest and Gale agreement enables searching across centuries of scholarship

"An agreement between ProQuest and Gale will connect the two most significant and widely used digital research databases of early modern English books, used at more than 200 universities worldwide, through cross-search technology. In 2008, a search in ProQuest's Early English Books Online (EEBO) also will provide bibliographic search results from Gale's Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) for mutual subscribers, and vice versa. EEBO and ECCO are digital collections of nearly every printed work from the late 15th through the 18th centuries, and are considered to be among the world's most valued research collections. The agreement will streamline serious research in literature, humanities, history and a variety of cultural studies."