Svenska dagstidningar offers a collection of around 27 million pages from different swedish newspapers, including but not limited to Aftonbladet, Dagens industri, Dagens nyheter and Expressen. This collection and resouce is maintained by the National Library of Sweden. Due to copyright, only material older than 115 years is acessible online. Learn more
New York Public Library Digital Gallery has over 900 000 items digitized, these items include prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
The Internet Archive, a non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. They provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Today they have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and work with 625+ library and other partners through the Archive-It program to identify important web pages. Learn more
The digital Monumenta Germaniae Historica offers digital versions of classic MGH published source material. The site is in German and the material is focused on the Middle Ages and Central Europe.
The MGH are a research institution with a long and rich history. With over 200 years experience in publishing Medieval source material in text-critical editions and scholarly research on the Middle Ages in Germany and Europe, the MGH embody the classical tradition of source-oriented Medieval scholarship.
The MGH editions are one of the most reputable publications of source material for the history of the Middle Ages. They appear in the following series:
Annotated Books Online is a virtual research environment for scholars and students interested in historical reading practices. It is part of the research project “A Collaboratory for the Study of Reading and the Circulation of Ideas in Early Modern Europe” funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and co-ordinated by Arnoud Visser. Generous additional funding was provided by Anthony Grafton for the edition of Gabriel Harvey’s annotations to Livy (Mellon Foundation). Learn more
EEBO is based on the microfilm collections curated by the Ann Arbor publisher Eugene B. Power (1905-1993). The founder of what became University Microfilms International or UMI, Power’s first foreign project established the microfilming operation at the British Museum in 1942 and, since then, more than 200 libraries worldwide have contributed to the microfilm collection.
Following its digital launch in 1998, Early English Books Online now contains page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere between 1473 and 1700.
Beginning with the very first book published in English, EEBO draws from four authoritative bibliographical resources – both Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640)and Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) in their revised versions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) and the Early English Books Tract Supplement – to present more than 146,000 titles and over 17 million scanned pages of content. Learn more
World Digital Library is a database launched by the United States Library of Congress in 2009 and it’s supported by various global institutions including UNESCO. The archive provides many different cultural documents around the world with almost 20 000 items from 193 different countries in its collections. The documents in the archive include books, manuscripts, maps and photographs. Learn more
Newspaper Clippings Collection is an online newspaper archive provided by the Kobe University Digital Archive. The database includes over 300 000 clips from various newspapers in Japan from 1836 to 1944 originally collected by the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration. The database includes original picture of each article and its text in digitized form. Learn more
NDL Digital Collections is provided by the National Diet Library of Japan and includes many different types of documents including books, maps, scripts and audio-visual materials unedited in digitized form. These sources can be used in cultural, political and war history researches of Japan. Some of the materials in the collection require special permission from the NDL or its partner libraries but most documents are available publicly on the internet. Learn more
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records is an online archive provided by National Archives of Japan and includes various sources from East Asian modern history. This database is useful for studies of the history of East Asian relationships and it has documents regarding the Pacific War, Sino-Japanese War for instance. The archive is available in English, excluding a few pages, and has all its documents’ titles also in English for the search tool. Learn more