Österreichisches Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library)

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Österreichisches Nationalbibliothek looks back to a history rich in tradition going as far as the 14th century. It is a living bridge between the rich heritage of the past and the future-oriented demands of a modern information society. As a service-oriented information centre, the Austrian National Library offers its users access and professional advice on its own holdings (over 10.9 million objects) and also on international data pools. It also accepts commissions on scientific research, and operates documentation centres and service facilities, for example on literature specifically devoted to women’s studies. Since the beginning of the digital age, a steadily increasing number of services have been handled online via the website of the Austrian National Library. Learn more

Das Bundesarchiv (The Federal Archives of Germany)

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Das Bundesarchiv has the legal mandate to secure the archives of the federal government in the long term and to make them available for use. These are documents (including files, maps, pictures, posters, films and sound recordings in analogue and digital form) that have been produced by central offices of the Holy Roman Empire (1495-1806), the German Confederation (1815-1866), of the German Reich (1867/71-1945), the Occupation Zones (1945-1949), the German Democratic Republic (1949-1990) and the Federal Republic of Germany (since 1949). Learn more

Digital Library of the Caribbean

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Digital Library of the Caribbean is a multi-institutional, international digital library focusing on materials about the history and culture of the Caribbean and its surrounding areas. Materials include official documents, journals, newspapers, travel histories, oral histories, maps and artwork as well as historical data. Learn more

Independent Voices

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Independent Voices  is an open access digital collection of alternative newspapers, publications and journals from specialised library collections. The collection starts from mid 20th century, and focuses on publications by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists and the extreme right-wing press. Learn more

The Perseus Catalog

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The Perseus Catalog is a website by the Tufts university’s classics department that collects and catalogues humanities resources and sources, focusing on classics and the antiquity. They have their own collection of primary and secondary sources as well as an extensive catalogue of sources, bibliographies, editions and metadata. Learn more

Legacies of British Slave-ownership

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Legacies of British Slave-ownership is a database by the University Collage London compiling information about slavery and slave ownership in the British Caribbean and surrounding areas in the 18th and 19th centuries. The database focuses on slave-owners, centring around the The records of the Slave Compensation Commission in the 1830s, giving information on individual slave-owners, estates as well as attorneys, mortgagees and legatees related to the slave estates. Learn more

DigitaltMuseum (Digital Museum of Sweden and Norway)

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DigitaltMuseum is a continuously expanding collection of more than 6 million museum objects from across both Sweden and Norway. Many of them have never been previously presented to the public. They are mainly presented in form of high quality pictures and photos. Learn more

Fordham Internet History Sourcebooks Project (IHSP)

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The Internet History Sourcebooks Project, is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. The project is maintained by Fordham University in New York. From the outset the site took a very broad view of the sources that should be available to students and as well as documents long associated with a “western civilization” approach to history also provides much information on Byzantine, Islamic, Jewish, Indian, East Asian, and African history. You will also find many documents especially relevant to women’s history and LGBT studies.

The project however does not contain images of the actual text and therefore should not be used as a primary source for research. It can be useful as a place to browse historical documents before finding better versions of them.

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The Vatican Library

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The Vatican Library contains original manuscripts, coins, visual materials and much more produced by the Vatican from around the middleages upuntil 1800. The material is largely in latin or italian, but the page is available in Italian as well as in English.

DigiVatLib is based on the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) technology, making digital materials easily accessible and usable. Learn more