ECO, or Electronic Collections Online, is one of the FirstSearch fulltext databases. Covering more than 4800 publications, ECO provides access to the full text of articles from academic journals in agriculture, anthropology, business, economics, education, fine arts, geography, history, language, law, library science, literature, medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, religion, science, social science, and technology.

To begin a ECO session, choose the "All Databases" link in the FirstSearch navigation panel (green tabbed area near the top of the FirstSearch screen) and select ECO from the resulting list of databases by clicking the selection box to the left of the database name. Click the "Select" button at the bottom of the databases page to begin searching.