The David Rumsey Map Collection database is historical map collection presenting over 105,000 maps and related images online. The collection includes rare 16th through 21st century maps of America, North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific, Arctic, Antarctic, and the World. The physical map collection is housed in the David Rumsey Map Center at the Stanford University Library. Learn more.
Alvin is a platform for the long-term preservation and accessible storage of digitised collections and digital cultural heritage materials. It is also a catalogue of materials that have not yet been digitised. The platform is a collaboration between several different cultural heritage organisations within Sweden’s GLAM sector. Learn more
Zeitschriften der Aufklärung is a digitally reconstructed corpus of major 18th and 19th century literary journals and review journals published in the German language. The selection of the periodicals is mainly based on the “Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815” compiled by the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen. The collection is available as a part of the digital collections of the University of Bielefeld. 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
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
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.