Chronicling America is a website containing a collection of Library of Congress for digitized American newspapers. The archive includes newspapers published in the United States between years 1777 and 1963. Learn more
LA84 Digital Library is a legacy project originating from Olympic games of Los Angeles in 1984. Their mission is to fund youth sports in Southern California, train coaches and examine the role of sports in society. Their digital collection contains documents about sport and Olympics history. Learn more
The ESTC contains catalogue entries for items issued in Britain, Ireland, overseas territories under British colonial rule, and the United States. Also included is material printed elsewhere which contains significant text in English, Welsh, Irish or Gaelic, as well as any book falsely claiming to have been printed in Britain or its territories.
The database contains over 480,000 entries, and represents the holdings of some 2,000 libraries world-wide. Learn more
The USTC has now absorbed all our data for the period 1601-1650, so that we provide full coverage of the first two centuries of print in all our searches and analysis. We have added an extra one million copies, with, as far as possible, call numbers. We now have located copies from 8,500 libraries, archives and museums.
The USTC now comprises 740,000 editions with 4,000,000 surviving copies. Additional data to be added over the next weeks will take this total to 780,000 editions. The USTC now includes descriptions of some 40,000 single-sheet items, and this too will climb rapidly as we incorporate several thousand further items that we have discovered in our searches in archives. Learn more
Nasjonalbiblioteket is a major source of knowledge relating to Norway and all things Norwegian. There you’ll find an amazing and constantly expanding selection of digitalised books, newspapers, pictures, periodicals, maps, letters, and music manuscripts. Learn more
The Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue is a searchable, analytical and annotated list of all translations out of and into all languages printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland before 1641. It also includes all translations out of all languages into English printed abroad before 1641.
RCCC draws on the second edition of the Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640 edited by A. W. Pollard & G. R. Redgrave and is modelled on the online English Short-Title Catalogue, although offering additional information on the translations and translators. Learn more
The Ryhiner map collection, is comprised of digitized maps of the 16th – 19th century, in the Center of Historical Collections ZHB at the University of Bern Münstergasse. Learn more
Olympic World Library- Digital Collection
Digitized archives of International Olympic Committee. Offers a large section of documents from IOC, the organizing committees and International Sports Federations. Some items require a subscription. Learn more
Digital Bodleian first launched in 2015 with the aim of bringing together digitized content from the Bodleian Libraries’ extraordinary and rich collections into a single portal. The Bodleian Libraries have been digitizing content since the early 1990s and Digital Bodleian was and is designed to enable access to that content for the widest possible audience.
The collection contains images of rare books, manuscripts and art mostly from the Medieval and Modern Ages.
Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National library of France) and its partners. It contains books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, cartoons, drawings, prints, posters, maps, manuscripts, antique coins, scores, theater costumes and sets, audio and video materials. All library materials are freely available. The digital library is in French with some elements also available in English.