Archive Title: Adam Matthew Digital Link to Archive or Database: https://www.amdigital.co.uk/ About: We believe that at the heart of education is the freedom to think critically. Harnessing the latest technologies, we reimagine primary sources, to empower current and future generations to challenge, analyse and debate. Our award-winning digital products provide Read more…
Archive Title: HathiTrust Digital Library Link to Archive or Database: https://www.hathitrust.org/ About: Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is a not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+ million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for Read more…
Archive Title: Calisphere Link to Archive or Database: https://calisphere.org/ About: Welcome to Calisphere: your gateway to California’s remarkable digital collections. Calisphere provides free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover over two million photographs, documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, advertisements, musical Read more…
Archive Title: Digital Public Library of America Link to Archive or Database: https://dp.la/ About: The Digital Public Library of America amplifies the value of libraries and cultural organizations as Americans’ most trusted sources of shared knowledge. We do this by collaborating with partners to accelerate innovative tools and ideas that Read more…
Archive Title: Europeana Link to Archive or Database: http://www.europeana.eu/en About: Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. This website gives you access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to Read more…
Archive Title: The British Library – Digital Collections Link to Archive or Database: http://www.bl.uk/ About: We are the national library of the United Kingdom and give access to the world’s most comprehensive research collection. We provide information services to academic, business, research and scientific communities. Our collection of over 170 million Read more…
Archive Title: Cambridge Digital Library Link to Archive or Database: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections About: The mission of the University of Cambridge is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Cambridge Digital Library supports this mission through a vision based on Read more…
Archive Title: The Pacific Rim Library Project Link to Archive or Database: http://prl.library.ucla.edu/index About: The Pacific Rim Research Libraries Alliance, also known as PRRLA, focuses on cooperative ventures among academic libraries located around the Pacific Rim to improve access to scholarly research materials. Welcome to the Pacific Rim Library (PRL): Read more…
Archive Title: Balochistan Archives Link to Archive or Database: http://balochistanarchives.gob.pk/ About: Balochistan is the largest of the four provinces of Pakistan and possesses a rich variety of languages, resources, civilization and culture. The province is located at the geographical intersection and cultural crossroads of South Asia, Central Asia, and the Read more…
Archive Title: Granth Sanjeevani Link to Archive or Database: http://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui About: Granth Sanjeevani has over 20,000 books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, journals, government publications and reports. Though the majority of books are in English, there are books in Sanskrit and other ancient and modern Indian languages and in European languages like Read more…
Archive Title: Union Catalogue of Manuscripts from the Islamicate World Link to Archive or Database: https://www.fihrist.org.uk/ About: The rich collections of manuscripts bear witness to the linguistic, religious and cultural diversity of what commonly features as the Islamic world. The combined holdings of the contributing Libraries of the UK are Read more…
Archive Title: Qatar Digital Library Link to Archive or Database: http://www.qdl.qa/en About: The Qatar Digital Library (QDL) is making a vast archive featuring the cultural and historical heritage of the Gulf and wider region freely available online for the first time. It includes archives, maps, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs and Read more…
Archive Title: The LUMS Digital Archive Link to Archive or Database: http://archive.lums.edu.pk/ About: The LUMS Digital Archive is a research repository that aims at collecting, cataloging and preserving rare material (books, pamphlets, newspapers and other items) of historical significance and making them available to researchers. In particular, the archive focuses Read more…
Archive Title: Historical Papers Research Archive – University of the Witwatersrand Link to Archive or Database: http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/ About: The Historical Papers research archive, situated in the William Cullen Library, was established in 1966. We are a friendly, vastly used, valued and popular service as well as unique and accessible hub Read more…
Archive Title: The West African Arabic Manuscript Database – University of California Berkeley Link to Archive or Database: https://waamd.lib.berkeley.edu/about/index About: WAAMD is a bi-lingual database that was developed at the University of Illinois in the late 1980s to describe a collection of Arabic manuscripts in southern Mauritania (Boutilimit). It subsequently Read more…
Name of Archive: Center for Research Libraries – Digital Collections Link to Archive or Database: http://catalog.crl.edu/search~S1/X?SEARCH=(*)&searchscope=1&SORT=D&b=campn About: Scholars and researchers from CRL member libraries have use of the CRL collections, at no charge, through interlibrary loan. The loan period is unlimited, but materials may be subject to recall after a Read more…
Name of Archive: Chatham House Archives Online Link to Archive or Database: https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/chatham-house-online-archive About: With approximately half a million pages of content, Chatham House Online Archive provides a searchable research environment that enables users to explore close to ninety years of expert analysis and commentary on international policy. Subject indexing Read more…
Name of Archive: South Asia Open Archives (JSTOR) Link to Archive or Database: https://www.jstor.org/site/saoa/ About: Welcome to SAOA. South Asia Open Archives is a free open-access resource for research and teaching – a rich and growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, Read more…
Name of Archive: Archives of Sexuality and Gender – GALE Primary Sources Link to Archive or Database: https://www.gale.com/primary-sources/archives-of-sexuality-and-gender About: Gale’s Archives of Sexuality and Gender program spans the sixteenth to twentieth centuries and is the largest digital collection of historical primary source publications relating to the history and study of Read more…
Name of Archive: Library of Congress – Digital Collections Link to Archive or Database: https://www.loc.gov/collections/?sp=2 About: Today’s Library of Congress is an unparalleled world resource. The collection of more than 171 million items includes more than 40 million cataloged books and other print materials in 470 languages; more than 74 Read more…
Name of Archive: Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives Link to Archive or Database: https://sova.si.edu/ About: The Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA) provides integrated access to descriptions and detailed inventories of thousands of primary resource collections maintained by archival units across the Smithsonian. Discover archival collections related by topic and/or by names Read more…